Article 1 - MISSISSIPPI UNIFORM POST-CONVICTION COLLATERAL RELIEF ACT
- 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