ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The right to counsel is “tenuous” in a small Mississippi justice court in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, where two judges appointed lawyers for felony defendants in…

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Mississippi can continue to bar more than 10 percent of its citizens from voting, maintaining a Jim Crow-era provision that bars Mississippians convicted of felonies from taking part in elections, reports the Daily Journal.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The first case the justices heard was Mississippi v. Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border.

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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 NAACP originally appealed to the Fifth Circuit on behalf of several Jackson, Mississippi residents after losing a district court case only a few days ago.

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JURIST

JULY 19, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reaffirmed Thursday that a section of the Mississippi Constitution that banned felons from voting for life did not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution and was thereby constitutional. Therefore, it is not a penal measure, much less a cruel and unusual one.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

“Mississippi voting rights case is argued at US appeals court”: Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press has this report. ” You can access the audio of today’s en banc oral argument of the U.S. ” You can access the audio of today’s en banc oral argument of the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2024

The third of six members of the Mississippi deputy group who referred to themselves as the “Goon Squad,” Daniel Opdyke, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 and a half years in federal prison for his involvement in the torture of two black men. The officers then beat both men and tased them 17 times.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 15, 2023

“Supreme Court’s decision on felony suffrage hinges on understanding of state amendment process”: Bobby Harrison has this essay online at Mississippi Today. The post “Supreme Court’s decision on felony suffrage hinges on understanding of state amendment process” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 5, 2023

“Appeals Court Overturns Mississippi’s Lifetime Ban on Voting for Former Felons; A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to ‘the democratic core of American citizenship’”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

million people, will be barred from voting in 2022 due to state laws banning people with felony convictions from doing so, reports NPR. percent in Massachusetts to more than 8 percent in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, while Vermont, Maine, and Washington, D.C. ” Disenfranchisement rates range from 0.15

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 23, 2024

“Conservative Appeals Judges Question Felon Voting Ban Claims; Mississippi prohibits certain felons from ever voting again; En banc Fifth Circuit hears claim that ban cruel and unusual”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In Alabama, lawmakers have refiled a previously unsuccessful felony ban on health care for trans minors. Republicans in Arizona and Kentucky have also proposed health care bans for trans youth, similar to a law passed last year in Arkansas that bans gender-affirming care for trans minors.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

The “reasonable time” permitted under many state statutes can quickly stretch into months, as in the case of Jessica Jauch, a resident of Choctaw County in Mississippi. A Mississippi grand jury indicted Jauch on felony drug charges, issuing a warrant for her arrest that ultimately ended in her incarceration.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

For this action to be effective, the Senate would need to also vote on this bill to take the drug off Schedule I, which currently makes its possession and distribution (and the use of radio to promote it), a federal felony. Then the President would have to sign the bill.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2022

The bill is modeled after a Mississippi law that is currently under consideration by the US Supreme Court. They argued that Kentucky abortion providers “are at immediate risk of committing felonies or incurring serious fines, civil liability, or revocation of their licenses if they continue to provide abortions.”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Mississippi. For example, Brett Jones would not have received a life without parole sentence in California for stabbing his grandfather to death after being attacked by the grandfather yet in Mississippi that is not only the “appropriate” but mandatory penalty. Mississippi gives constitutional blessing to.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

SB 612 makes abortions, or attempts at abortion, a felony. ” The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Mississippi’s more limited 15-week ban last December. A decision in the Mississippi case is expected by this summer. Punishment includes a $100,000 fine or a maximum of ten years in jail, or both.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

A shooting at the Mississippi state fairgrounds injures at least four and scuttles a music festival. In some states, residents couldn’t previously obtain a permit to carry if they had been convicted of resisting law enforcement or had juvenile adjudications that would have been felonies had the person been an adult.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The Mississippi Constitution denies the vote to any person “convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy.” Department of Justice “precleared” Mississippi’s provision to permit it to enter effect. That brings us to Harness v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Mississippi —a decision that held courts need not make an independent factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” as a prerequisite to imposing a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender. Mississippi gave a constitutional blessing to—a practice that cost Joshua Beasley his life.

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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. The Republican-led committee passed Senate Bill 1164 with a vote of 5-3.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The first case is Mississippi v. While the seriatim round was widely viewed as a way to keep Justice Clarence Thomas engaged as he was during telephone arguments, it is Thomas who asks the first question of John Coghlan, the deputy solicitor general of Mississippi. Thomas says. He asks four follow-up questions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2025

In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution generally permits states to strip people convicted of felonies of their right to vote. Felony disenfranchisement has a long, and often racist, history. Section 241 of Mississippis constitution is no exception. A federal district court in Mississippi rejected the challenge.

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