Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act

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Section
99-39-1

Short title

Section
99-39-3

Purpose

Section
99-39-5

Grounds for relief; time limitations; "biological evidence" defined

Section
99-39-7

Filing motion in trial court; filing motion to proceed in trial court with supreme court

Section
99-39-9

Requirements of motion and service

Section
99-39-11

Judicial examination of original motion; dismissal; filing answer; court ordered testing of biological evidence

Section
99-39-13

Answer; affirmative defenses

Section
99-39-15

Requests for discovery

Section
99-39-17

Expansion of record

Section
99-39-19

Evidentiary hearing; summary judgment

Section
99-39-21

Procedural waiver of objections, defenses, claims; collateral estoppel; res judicata; burden of proof

Section
99-39-23

Conduct of evidentiary hearing; right to counsel; finality of order as bar to subsequent motions; burden of proof; appointment of postconviction counsel in death penalty cases

Section
99-39-25

Right to appeal; stay of judgment; bail on appeal

Section
99-39-27

Application to Supreme Court for leave to proceed in trial court; grant of relief; dismissal or denial as res judicata

Section
99-39-28

Supreme Court to establish rules for post-conviction proceedings in capital cases

Section
99-39-29

Stay of death penalty execution