JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi death row inmate convicted in the slaying of his estranged wife is asking the state Supreme Court to throw out his guilty plea because a fair jury could not be seated in Union County.
The Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case on Tuesday in Jackson.
In 2012, David Neal Cox Sr. was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to shooting and killing his wife Kim at a home in Sherman.
The trial court seated a jury to determine Cox's sentence.
Cox, now 44, argues news coverage of the case was heighted because his wife came from a well-known family of present and former law enforcement officers.
Prosecutors say Cox was exaggerating the extent of familiarity between prospective jurors and his wife's family.
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