(CNN) -- A Wyoming attorney representing a convicted murderer recently pardoned by Mississippi's outgoing governor says his client will not attend a Mississippi Supreme Court hearing this week on the constitutionality of his and some 200 other pardons. "He's not going to go," Cheyenne, Wyoming, attorney Robert Moxley said of his client, Joseph Ozment. "He's not a fugitive and there's no valid order that says he needs to appear," Moxley told CNN. On Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments brought by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood challenging the legality of scores of pardons issued by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour.
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Joseph Ozment was one of some 200 Mississippi inmates pardoned
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The pardons were issued last month by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour
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The state attorney general is challenging the pardons
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Ozment, now in Wyoming, will not attend a hearing in Mississippi, his lawyer says
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