State court of appeals affirms Tippah County capital murder ruling
JACKSON - The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed the capital murder convictions and sentences of a Tennessee man. Kaderius Hamer, 23, of Bolivar, Tennessee was convicted of two counts of capital murder in July 2019 and sentences to two life sentences in the July 2017 deaths of Paul Koster 51, and Ayla Hopper, 29, near Walnut. During the trial in Tippah County Circuit Court, there was a question of whether Hamer's confession was involuntary and coerced. The defense attorneys tried unsuccessfully to have it suppressed. The jury was allowed to hear the entire videotaped interrogation and conf...
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