Brooks v. Mississippi
Annotate this CaseIn 2013, Chaddy Brooks looked through her boyfriend’s phone and saw text messages from another woman. The couple got into an argument that later became physical, and ended with Brooks stabbing the boyfriend in the neck with a kitchen knife. Brooks was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to serve forty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. She appealed, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to convict her, and that she received ineffective assistance of counsel. Finding no error, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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