Green v. Mississippi
Annotate this CaseIn February 2012, the Adams County Sheriff’s Department recovered three firearms from the trunk of Verenzo Green’s vehicle during an inventory search of the vehicle. A grand jury indicted Green and, following a trial in the Adams County Circuit Court, a jury convicted Green of three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of trafficking a firearm. The Court of Appeals affirmed Green’s convictions and sentences, and Green appealed to the Supreme Court on grounds of an alleged double jeopardy violation first raised sua sponte in a dissent by the Court of Appeals using the plain error doctrine. The Supreme Court found that the principle of law argued by Green, which he adopted from the Court of Appeals dissent, was not appropriate for plain error review. Accordingly, the Court affirmed.
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