JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi inmate Milton Trotter isn’t giving up his campaign to get out of state prison. After the case made the rounds of the federal courts, the Mississippi Court of Appeals in […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A Mississippi court has declined to order convicted murderer Milton Trotter released from prison, rejecting arguments that he signed a plea deal with the understanding that state parole officials would free […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi’s Court of Appeals says the state Board of Medical Licensure can discipline a radiologist for making what a federal judge found to be thousands of “manufactured” lung disease diagnoses. The […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out a 60-year sentencing given a Gulfport man for dealing drugs. The court ordered Johnny Lee Floyd resentenced as a non-habitual offender. Floyd […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The murder conviction of a former employee of the federal Transportation Security Administration in Mississippi has been upheld by the state Court of Appeals. Ruben Orlando Benitez had appealed his murder […]
A Mississippi woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday in the death of her husband, who died in 2006 after being doused with hot cooking oil.
Hancock County Circuit Court Clerk Karen Ruhr said Edna Mae Sanders, 52, is set for sentencing April 15 in the county’s Circuit Court. Manslaughter in Mississippi carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison, though judges have discretion in sentencing and she’s likely to get credit for time served.
Prosecutors said Sanders poured the oil on Sherman Sanders, 53, while he was asleep at their house in Diamondhead in south Mississippi on July 27, 2006. He died several days later. […]
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