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Brown v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi · State appellate courts · MS · 2026-03-10 · --- So.3d ----, 2026 WL 670733 · No. 2024-KA-00489-COA · opinion

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Court of Appeals of Mississippi on 2026-03-10 in Brown v. State of Mississippi found counsel's reply brief contained three citation defects involving nonexistent authorities, fabricated or misattributed quotations, mischaracterized authority. The court warned counsel to verify legal authorities before future filings.

Disposition: The court affirmed Brown's convictions and sentences and noted the citation issues in a footnote without imposing a consequence.
Recorded conduct: Brown's appellate brief cited three nonexistent cases, misattributed false facts, analyses, quotations, and holdings to five real cases, and quoted seven cases for language not in those opinions. — outcome: noted, no consequence; actor: lawyer
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What the court wrote

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3 Brown does not assert that his statutory right to a speedy trial was violated. See Miss. Code Ann. § 99-17-1 (Rev. 2020). 4 In the State's appellate brief, the State asserts that regarding this issue, Brown cites three cases that do not exist and five others that his brief misattributes false facts, analyses, quotations, and holdings to otherwise genuine citations. Brown also cites seven cases for quotations that do not appear in those opinions. In the reply brief, Brown's counsel acknowledged these errors, which included “phantom cases” and incorrect citations. 5 Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).

Authorities cited in the passage: s brief cited three cases that do not exist ( · Miranda v. Arizona

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