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CLOWERS v. STATE

No. 57403.

522 So.2d 762 (1988)

Robert Earl CLOWERS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jr., Stanfield, Carmody & Coxwell, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

DAN M. LEE, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

This case presents questions concerning the propriety of a trial court's reduction of a statutory sentence for an habitual offender based upon a finding of disproportionality.

A jury in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County convicted Clowers of uttering a forged $250 check. Following a hearing, the trial court found beyond a reasonable doubt that Clowers was an habitual offender. Instead...

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