Percy Harris a/k/a Percy Le-Ron Harris a/k/a Percy L. Harris v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The court affirmed Harris's first-degree murder conviction and life sentence, holding that his prosecutorial-misconduct claim was procedurally barred because he did not contemporaneously object and the prosecutor's remarks were not sufficiently inflammatory to trigger review despite that omission. The court also concluded that the challenged comments did not improperly ask the jury to send a message, invoke a golden-rule argument, penalize Harris for exercising his right to trial, or employ impermissibly inflammatory tactics. The court declined to review additional issues in Harris's supplemental brief because the brief failed to satisfy the applicable argument and authority requirements.