{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-39-117","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-117","heading":"Conflict of interest; employment of qualified private counsel; payment of fees and expenses; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Fund.","body":"(1) If at any time during the representation of two (2) or more defendants, the director determines that the interest of those persons are so adverse or hostile that they cannot all be represented by the director or his staff without conflict of interest, or if the director shall determine that the volume or number of representations shall so require, the director, in his sole discretion, not withstanding any statute or regulation to the contrary, shall be authorized to employ qualified private counsel. Fees and expenses, approved by order of the appropriate court, including investigative and expert witness expenses of such private counsel shall be paid from funds appropriated to the Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Fund for this purpose.\n(2) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Fund. The purpose of the fund shall be to provide funding for the Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel. Monies from the funds derived from assessments under Section 99-19-73 shall be distributed by the State Treasurer upon warrants issued by the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal-year limitations, and shall consist of:\n(a) Monies appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of funding the Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel;\n(b) The interest accruing to the fund;\n(c) Monies received under the provisions of Section 99-19-73;\n(d) Monies received from the federal government;\n(e) Donations; and\n(f) Monies received from such other sources as may be provided by law.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 39. Post-Conviction Proceedings","Article 3. Mississippi Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Act."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.99.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:13Z","sha256":"accaeefa1ff6e14c1ff29a1704aaa2d22e68a40f4773230a57eb948f1cf81eab","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-39-115","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-39-119","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}