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LAFAYETTE v. STATE

No. 2010-CT-00064-SCT.

90 So.3d 1215 (2012)

Anthony LAFAYETTE v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stan Perkins , Greenville, attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Laura Hogan Tedder , Scott Stuart , attorneys for appellee.

EN BANC.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI.

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. At Anthony Lafayette's murder trial, when the jury informed the trial judge that it could not reach a unanimous verdict, the judge responded to the jurors that, if they could not reach a verdict, he would call a new jury that would be "reasonable and fair" and that he hoped not to put the "County and State to the expense" if he could get around it. Lafayette moved for a...

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