Mississippi Supreme Court

Lucas Montel Howard a/k/a Bam a/k/a Lucas M. Howard v. State of Mississippi

September 26, 2024

Summary

The court affirmed Howard’s convictions and sentences for possession of cocaine with intent to sell and conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to sell. It held that the recorded jail calls, the quantity of cocaine, Howard’s prior drug-distribution convictions, and the surrounding circumstances sufficiently supported the verdicts, and that none of Howard’s confrontation, double-jeopardy, evidentiary, prosecutorial-misconduct, ineffective-assistance, weight-of-the-evidence, or cumulative-error claims warranted relief.