William Jeffrey Knight v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The court affirmed Knight’s convictions and consecutive sentences totaling ninety-five years. It held that the private-search doctrine permitted law enforcement to view on Knight’s phone the same video that Sarah had privately discovered and shown to police, and it rejected Knight’s challenges concerning prosecutorial misconduct, warrant validity, false testimony, disproportionality, ineffective assistance, and cumulative error. The court concluded that the warrant defects were clerical, the alleged testimonial inconsistencies were for the jury, the sentence was within statutory limits, and the ineffective-assistance claim was not suitable for resolution on direct appeal.