At 10:00 the COA will hear the case of Julie Dauenhauer v. Steven Dauenhauer. Steven and Julie married twice. The first time was for 20 years and they had two sons. Two years after their 2001 divorce, they remarried. During the second marriage, she became a nurse practitioner while Steven, because of his religious beliefs,…
Hand down list Daylon Waldrop v. State of Mississippi – failure to instruct on underlying felony – Daylon Waldrop was convicted of capital murder with the underlying felony of armed robbery. On appeal, he argues that it was error to fail the instruct the jury on the elemetns of armed robbery. The COA agrees and reverses and…
Hand down list Mississippi Sand Solutions, LLC v. Bessie Otis, Sherry Fisher, Connie Fisher Walker, Dennis Roy Holmes, Robbie Jean Holmes Ware, Maggie Fisher, Greg Cooper, Shirley Fisher Gray, Horace Darryl Fisher, Derrick Fisher, Ray W. Fisher, Sr., Larry Fisher, Michael C. Fisher, Sr., Cornelius Fisher, Sr., Diane Fisher Williams, Sharon Fisher Hill, Sheila Fisher…
Hand down list Khloe Conner v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security – unemployment benefits – Conner was fired from Dollar General after she engaged in a physical altercation with a customer during which she cut the customer with a box-cutter. Unsurprisingly, she was denied unemployment benefits. The testimony was that Conner got into an argument with a customer…
At 10:00, the COA will hear the case of Barry D. Ware v. State of Mississippi. Ware was charged with first degree murder in Attala County in 2012. He pleaded guilty in 2013. He later filed a pcr motion alleging that his plea was involuntary because his trial counsel erroneously advised him that he would be…
At 1:30 the Court will hear the interlocutory appeal of State of Mississippi v. Walgreen Co, State of Mississippi v. Fred’s, and State of Mississippi v. CVS The State of Mississippi filed lawsuits in the Chancery Court of Desoto County against various pharmacies claiming that the pharmacies’ had requested Medicaid reimbursement using “usual and customary” prices…
Hand down list Willard Randall Marquis v. State of Mississippi – sexual battery – Marquis was convicted for the sexual battery of five-year-old J.D. Marquis was married to J.D.’s grandmother. J.D. confided the abuse to her mother one night while her mother was bathing her. J.D.’s mother used her cellphone to videotape some of what…
Leslie Danielle Dewitt v. State of Mississippi – unqualified juror/recording of conversation between defendant and third party – Leslie Dewitt was a girls’ basketball coach at Hancock High School. She was convicted of two counts of touching a tenth grade female basketball player, Bethany Foster, for lustful purposes. When Bethany struggled from depression during college, she confided…
Hand down list Jerome Henderson and Willie Henderson v. Roosevelt Blount – lease – In 2013, Blount entered into a contract whereby he leased (with eventual purchase) for $3000 a month a building and 5 acres of land in Marshall County from the Hendersons. The contract required the Hendersons to make certain repairs to the building…
Hand down list Walter Dewayne Sanford v. State of Mississippi – Lindsey brief – On November 30, 2014, Sanford was driving on I-59 in Pearl River County when he made a u-turn in the median and began driving erratically in the northbound lane and rear ended another car. The passenger in Sanford’s car, Teresa Speirs, …
Hand Down list Angela Wright v. Minact Logistical Services, LLC and Companion Property and Casualty Insurance Company – workers comp. – Angela Wright was employed by Minact Logistical Services at the Nissan Plant in Canton. In July 2012, Wright was instructed to ride on a crate in the back of a Fed-Ex truck by two supervisors at the…
Hand down list Doretha Thompson v. Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, Inc. and James E. Fortune, M.D. – medical malpractice/sponge left in patient – Doretha Thompson had her gallbladder removed in 2004. In 2011 she went to the ER complaning of stomach pain and a sponge was discovered in her abdomen. She sued the hospital and the surgeon. …
