By Robin Fitzgerald
Sun Herald
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered a hearing to determine if the rights of death-row inmate Jason Lee Keller were violated by a statement he made to police while he was recovering from gunshot wounds in a hospital.
Keller was convicted in the 2007 capital murder of Hat Nguyen, a 41-year-old single mother of four who worked at a convenience store in Biloxi.
He has appealed his conviction, but the order handed down Friday does not grant him a new trial. An evidentiary hearing on a statement offered into evidence at his trial will be reviewed before the state’s high court makes a decision.
Full story: Supreme Court orders hearing for death-row inmate from Biloxi killing