Grim v. Mississippi
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Frederick Denell Grim was convicted by jury for the sale of cocaine. The circuit court adjudicated Grim a habitual offender and sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's judgment of conviction and sentence. The Supreme Court granted Grim's petition for writ of certiorari to examine whether the trial court erred by allowing a laboratory supervisor, who neither observed nor participated in the testing of the substance, to testify in place of the analyst who had performed the testing. Finding no error, the Court affirmed.
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