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(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during ...
James Lamar Roberts Jr. (born June 8, 1945) [1] is an American retired jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1992 to 1999. [2]Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Roberts received a J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1971, [3] and served as the prosecuting attorney for Pontotoc County, Mississippi from 1972 to 1983.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, at three different crime ...
In March 2018, Chief Justice Waller and Justice King dissented when the majority of the Mississippi Supreme Court found that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole did not violate Miller v. Alabama (2012). [7] [8] Waller is a member of the Stennis Institute Advisory Board at Mississippi State University.
In the early 1960s, the state of Mississippi, as well as other local and state governments in the American South, defied federal direction regarding racial integration. [6] [7] Recent Supreme Court rulings had upset the Mississippi establishment, and white Mississippian society responded with open hostility.
In a rare address to a federal court Wednesday, Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph called efforts to attach him to a lawsuit challenging a new state law a “circus” with ...
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell (March 2, 1830 – January 10, 1917) [1] was an American politician and lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, and was previously a Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Deputy from Mississippi to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
On Tuesday, the Mississippi Supreme Court listened to Parents for Public Schools who wants officials to block federal funding to private schools. MS Supreme Court listens to arguments over federal ...