AMACKER v. STATE

No. 92-KA-00649-SCT.

676 So.2d 909 (1996)

Monroe AMACKER v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Bradley, Hattiesburg, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Pat S. Flynn, Asst. Attorney General, Jackson, for Appellee.

En Banc.


PRATHER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

I. INTRODUCTION

This case concerns two issues — whether, under these circumstances, the limitations on the defendant's presentation of evidence under M.R.E. 412, the rape shield rule, is unconstitutional as an impairment of the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to present witnesses in defense, and also as an impairment of the defendant's ability to demonstrate that he was not the source of the injury, under...

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