WILSON v. STATE

No. 89-CA-0302.

574 So.2d 1338 (1990)

James WILSON, Jr. v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry H. Powell, Thomas Price Alston Jones & Davis, Dennis L. Horn, Horn & Payne, Jackson, Grady F. Tollison, Jr., Oxford, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Wayne M. Snuggs and Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

William L. Denton, Jackson, Lewis Burke, Vicksburg, Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Lawrence T. Sorkin, Anthony Paduano, and John Holdridge, Cahill Firm, New York City, Luther T. Munford, Phelps Dunbar Marks Claverie & Sims, Jackson, for amicus curiae.

En Banc.


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal is a companion case to Wilson v. State, 574 So.2d 1324 (Miss. 1990), wherein the conviction of James Wilson, Jr., for capital murder and sentence to a mandatory term of life imprisonment were affirmed. During the course of that case, Wilson's attorneys spent totals of 779.2 and 562 hours, respectively, in their representation of Wilson. Their motion for compensation at a rate...

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