Felony Laws Legal Mississippi 
The Crime Report
JANUARY 18, 2022
While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
The Crime Report
MAY 9, 2022
A shooting at the Mississippi state fairgrounds injures at least four and scuttles a music festival. No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. His fears have been realized, he said, linking the change in law with a surge in gun thefts and more stolen guns recovered at violent crime scenes.
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JURIST
AUGUST 6, 2023
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”
JURIST
JANUARY 5, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The bill also gives the court jurisdiction over misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances and felony preliminary matters.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Also filing into that gallery are the justices’ law clerks and a few other court employees. Army, where she was head of the National Security Law division of the Office of the Judge Advocate General. The first case is Mississippi v. the court’s new marshal, Gail Curley, gives the cry of “Oyez! Thomas says.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. will always have the means to travel abroad to places where abortion is safe and legal.” The bill will soon move to a second reading.
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