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LOWE v. STATE

No. 2011-CT-00762-SCT.

127 So.3d 178 (2013)

John Bartholomew LOWE a/k/a John B. Lowe v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of State Public Defender by Hunter N. Aikins , Leslie S. Lee , John Bartholomew Lowe (pro se), attorneys for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Lisa L. Blount , attorney for appellee.

EN BANC.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

We recognized long ago that mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process, and that a criminal trial is fundamentally unfair if the State proceeds against an indigent defendant without making certain that he has access to the raw materials integral to the building of an effective defense.1

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