JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court Monday unanimously sided with Tennessee in a groundwater dispute with Mississippi. The dispute arose out of a Mississippi suit which alleged that the city of Memphis, Tennessee had wrongfully taken water from the Middle Claiborne Aquifer. The state must abide by the doctrine of equitable apportionment.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2023

Wingate temporarily blocked a Mississippi law Tuesday that made it illegal to “knowingly collect and transmit a ballot that was mailed to another person,” with a few exceptions. The case is in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi’s Northern Division. District Judge Henry T.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2023

The NAACP Monday filed a lawsuit to block a new Mississippi bill that they allege would violate the state’s constitution. House Bill (HB) 1020 allows the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice to appoint four judges to the Circuit Court of Hinds County. African Americans in Mississippi died so that we could vote.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2024

The last of the six members of the Mississippi law enforcement group known as the “Goon Squad,” Joshua Hartfield, was sentenced to just over ten years in prison on Thursday for his involvement in the January 2023 torturing of two Black men.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed on Thursday to reconsider a decision from August that a provision of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently prevents people convicted of certain felonies from voting is unconstitutional. Third, even if disenfranchisement were a punishment, it is not cruel and unusual.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2024

A federal judge in Mississippi sentenced former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Christian Dedmon to 40 years in prison on Wednesday, making Dedmon the fourth in a string of sentences for deputies who pled guilty for their role in the January 2023 beating and torture of two Black men. years in prison earlier on Wednesday.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Reptile strategy has taken the plaintiffs' bar by storm. The Reptile theory asserts that you can prevail at trial by speaking to, and scaring, the primitive part of jurors' brains, the part of the brain they share with reptiles.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Share Confirming expectations, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously denied Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater. For this state-level version of a trespass, Mississippi sought over $600 million in damages. Facts as developed so far indicate that Mississippi will be unable to meet that burden.

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2022

The voting margins in both chambers are considered “veto-proof,” enough to override a governor’s veto should Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves refuse to sign. It was quickly vetoed by the Mississippi Supreme Court, prompting lawmakers to work on drafting a medical marijuana bill.

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EvidenceProf Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Mississippi Rule of Evidence 803(18) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement contained in a treatise, periodical, or pamphlet if: (A) the statement is called to the attention of an expert witness on cross-examination or relied.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 5, 2021

“The Ghosts of Mississippi”: Columnist Charles M. Blow has this essay online at The New York Times.

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Above The Law

MAY 23, 2023

The post Judge Prevents Mississippi From Creating White-Elected Courts For Black Counties… For Now appeared first on Above the Law. Shouts out to Henry Wingate.

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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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Above The Law

APRIL 13, 2022

The post Mississippi Just Declared Its 30th Confederate Heritage Month. I think they should commit to the bit and pass National Red Coat Appreciation Month, too. How Is That Constitutional? appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Two US congressional committees Monday launched investigations into Mississippi’s handling of the Jackson water crisis. In August, torrential rain and flooding in the Jackson, Mississippi area left approximately 180,000 people without water for days.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A petition was filed Friday with the US Supreme Court asking the Court to review the constitutionality of the felon disenfranchisement provision of Mississippi’s 1890 Constitution. ” Harness and Karriem were convicted of forgery and embezzlement in Mississippi.

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EvidenceProf Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 804(b)(6) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay A statement offered against a party that wrongfully caused – or acquiesced in wrongfully causing – the declarant’s unavailability as a witness,

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

A report from the MacArthur Justice Center reveals that 2,716 detainees out of 5,800 people in Mississippi county jails had been there for more than 90 days and a majority of them lack legal representation, reports the Mississippi Free Press.

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Similar to its federal counterpart, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 606(b) provides as follows: (b) During an Inquiry into the Validity of a Verdict or Indictment. (1) 1) Prohibited Testimony or Other Evidence. During an inquiry into the validity of a verdict.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 12, 2021

Madison, Mississippi Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler is challenging Initiative 65 in court.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Kitchens, Branning to face off in Mississippi Supreme Court runoff election”: Will Stribling of Mississippi Pubic Broadcasting has this report.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 25, 2022

“Court: Mississippi can continue blocking felons from voting.” ” And Ashton Pittman of Mississippi Free Press has a report headlined “ ‘A Wrong Never Righted’: Court Upholds Mississippi’s 1890 Jim Crow Voting Law.” In his dissenting opinion , Circuit Judge James E. Graves, Jr.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement that: (A) a reasonable person in the declarant’s position would have made only if the person believed it to.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The post Mississippi Proves Civil Rights Lawyer’s Point With Sham Arrest And Trial appeared first on Above the Law. I look forward to the judge's resignation.

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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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EvidenceProf Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Similar to its federal counterpart, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(C) provides an exclusion to the rule against hearsay when The declarant testifies and is subject to cross-examination about a prior statement, and the statement: (C) identifies a person as someone.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2022

Mississippi Valley State University’s Prison Educational Partnership Program (PEPP), offering four-year degrees to incarcerated people at Bolivar County Correctional Facility and the Delta Correctional Facility, will be the first program run by a Historically Black college in the state, reports Mississippi Today.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

“An ad supporting Jenifer Branning finds imaginary liberals on the Mississippi Supreme Court”: Bobby Harrison of Mississippi Today has this news analysis.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi will conduct this investigation according to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The post US Department of Justice opens civil rights investigation into Mississippi police department appeared first on JURIST - News.

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EvidenceProf Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 804(b)(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay In a prosecution for homicide or in a civil case, [for] a statement that the declarant, while believing the declarant’s death to.

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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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LegalReader

MAY 6, 2022

There’s no point in having the children express their wish to live with you as Mississippi courts do not have to take their will into consideration.

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HowAppealing

JULY 22, 2021

“Mississippi asks the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report on the Brief for Petitioners that the State of Mississippi filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 13, 2021

“Mississippi Supreme Court orders 3rd trial in car crash case”: Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Mississippi issued Thursday. The dissenting opinions discuss a notable issue of appellate recusal.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to impose new restrictions on the ability of states to sentence juveniles to life without parole, rejecting a challenge from a Mississippi man, Brett Jones, who was convicted of the 2004 stabbing death of his grandfather, a crime committed when Jones was 15.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Experts say record-keeping and access problems in Mississippi’s justice courts are extreme, with many search warrants being no-knocks signed by judges even when police don’t apply for one. Other courts keep search warrant records but won’t let the public see them, defying well-established jurisprudence.

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