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2020 Mississippi Code
Title 99 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 39 - Post-Conviction Proceedings
Article 1 - Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act
- § 99-39-1. Short title
- § 99-39-3. Purpose
- § 99-39-5. Grounds for relief; time limitations; "biological evidence" defined
- § 99-39-7. Filing motion in trial court; filing motion to proceed in trial court with supreme court
- § 99-39-9. Requirements of motion and service
- § 99-39-11. Judicial examination of original motion; dismissal; filing answer; court ordered testing of biological evidence
- § 99-39-13. Answer; affirmative defenses
- § 99-39-15. Requests for discovery
- § 99-39-17. Expansion of record
- § 99-39-19. Evidentiary hearing; summary judgment
- § 99-39-21. Procedural waiver of objections, defenses, claims; collateral estoppel; res judicata; burden of proof
- § 99-39-23. Conduct of evidentiary hearing; right to counsel; finality of order as bar to subsequent motions; burden of proof; appointment of postconviction counsel in death penalty cases
- § 99-39-25. Right to appeal; stay of judgment; bail on appeal
- § 99-39-27. Application to Supreme Court for leave to proceed in trial court; grant of relief; dismissal or denial as res judicata
- § 99-39-28. Supreme Court to establish rules for post-conviction proceedings in capital cases
- § 99-39-29. Stay of death penalty execution
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