Raymond Phillips a/k/a Raymond Frank Phillips a/k/a Raymond Frank Phillips, Jr. v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Phillips’s convictions and sentences. It held that the victim’s statements captured on an officer’s body camera were nontestimonial because they were made during an ongoing emergency, while any Confrontation Clause violation from admitting the search-warrant affidavit was unpreserved and did not constitute plain error. The court further held that the affidavit’s reference to Phillips’s post-Miranda silence was harmless, that no cumulative error denied him a fair trial, and that the record affirmatively showed no ineffective assistance of counsel.