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…
JURIST
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law published a report Wednesday identifying thousands of people being held in Mississippi’s county jails while awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail or public defenders unavailable when required.
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JURIST
JANUARY 24, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging a Mississippi felon voter disenfranchisement law. The post US federal appeals court hears oral arguments in Mississippi felony disenfranchisement case appeared first on JURIST - News.
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.
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.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2021
The lectern and tables for lawyers arguing cases have been pushed to the back edge of the bar section, which is otherwise devoid of the many chairs where bar members would sit. The transcript on Oyez suggests that the lawyer, John Silard, used a polite “May I just finish the thought?” The first case is Mississippi v.
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