2004 Term Per Curiam Opinions of The Supreme Court of The United States - Howell V. Mississippi

Decided January 24, 2005

Writ of certiorari dismissed

The petitioner argued that the Mississippi courts violated his Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to require a jury instruction about a lesser included offense in his capital case. However, he failed to raise this claim before the Mississippi Supreme Court, leaving no decision on that issue for the Supreme Court to review. The writ of certiorari was accordingly dismissed as improvidently granted.