Pitts v. Mississippi · ¶19

Second, the court stressed that Mississippi's statute mandates screening in child-abuse cases while the Iowa statute in Coy only afforded trial courts discretion to screen. 405 So. 3d, at 1249–1250. But, if anything, the fact that Mississippi's statute is mandatory—and thus never requires a case- specific finding of necessity—renders it “more constitutionally problematic than the statute at issue in Coy, not less so.” Id., at 1258 (King, J., dissenting).

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