By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A movement is afoot to boost Mississippi’s image. Some politicians are pushing to name the FBI building in Jackson, Miss., after three slain civil rights workers, who were killed in 1964 during an intense voter registration drive, USA Today reported. The Jackson City Council is supposed to vote on a resolution…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Hinds County, Miss. Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter who made history as a prosecutor in the 1990s, is headed off to jail for lying to an FBI agent during a judicial corruption probe, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson in Aberdeen, Miss. sentenced him to 18 months in prison,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the post-9/11 era, some Islamic groups complained about being indiscriminately targeted simply because of their heritage. Now The Jackson Clarion Ledger is reporting that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oxford, Miss., targeted “convenience store operators in north Mississippi, many of Middle Eastern descent, despite a lack of any connection to…
Bobby DeLaughter was a hero and did great things as a prosecutor. Will this erase his legacy? By Jerry Mitchell Jackson Clarion Ledger ABERDEEN, Miss. – He wore the suit of an acclaimed prosecutor before donning the robe of a well-respected judge. Now Bobby DeLaughter expects to wear the uniform of a prison inmate. Hours…
A reputation as a legend, years of public service, all tainted by criminal charges. By ADAM NOSSITER New York Times As a young prosecutor in the early 1990s, Bobby DeLaughter was a hero to the civil rights community, a white Mississippian who gambled with his future by pursuing an old race crime that many in…
