Green v. Mississippi
Annotate this CaseA probation officer improperly induced L.J. Green III to give a statement that led to the discovery of the linchpin evidence used against Green at his robbery trial. While the trial judge suppressed Green’s statement, the judge still admitted evidence that Green possessed the victim’s car keys - evidence wholly derived from Green’s excluded statement. This evidence was admitted over Green’s objection; a jury convicted Green. On appeal, both Green and the State agreed the trial judge wrongly admitted the tainted evidence. Though the State argued the error was harmless, the Mississippi Supreme Court concluded the evidence strongly contributed to Green’s guilty verdicts. “So its admission was not harmless error.” Judgment was therefore reversed and the matter remanded for a new trial.
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