CORINTH – The state’s highest court has denied a motion to rehear a complaint that resulted in a 270-day suspension for a state judge accused of vigilante justice and interfering with a criminal case. Alcorn County Justice Court Judge Jimmy McGee was suspended in August for misconduct after he made statements in open court encouraging others to take the law into their own hands.
The complaint McGee referred to was in another court wherein one of McGee’s relatives was the victim of a crime. According to the state’s case file, McGee wrongfully participated in the investigation of the case, interfered with the orderly prosecution of the case, interfered with the suspect’s attempt to post bond and “disrupted” an executive session of the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors by entering the closed meeting uninvited, angrily complaining of the sheriff’s actions relating to the bond and otherwise causing a disturbance and an interruption of the business of the said Board of Supervisors.
McGee also sought to interfere with the suspect’s attempt to employ legal counsel by discouraging local attorneys from representing the suspect.
The Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance brought the accusations against McGee in August and the Mississippi Supreme Court refused to re-hear the case and reconsider McGee’s suspension last week.
McGee has been suspended without pay.
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