Mississippi High Court Reverses Conviction Despite No Error In Ballistic Expert Testimony Admission

(December 13, 2016, 12:08 PM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A trial judge did not err in allowing a ballistic expert to give definitive testimony matching bullets from a crime scene to a gun linked to a man later convicted of deliberate design murder, the majority of the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Dec. 8; however, the majority overturned the conviction based on the judge’s error in answering a question posed by a jury during deliberations (James Douglas Willie a/k/a James D. Willie a/k/a James Willie v. State of Mississippi, No. 2014-KA-01041-SCT, Miss. Sup.; 2016 Miss. LEXIS 509)....

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