Court of Appeals Judge Ceola James of Vicksburg took the oath of office as a Judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Monday, Jan. 7.
Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. administered the oath at the Gartin Justice Building in Jackson.
James was elected to a four-year term in a special election in November 2012. She was elected from Court of Appeals District 2, Place 2. […]
The Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments tomorrow, Nov. 27, in an appeal from a Biloxi man convicted of killing his father.
Dante Evans was 16 when he was convicted in Harrison County of murder in the April 13, 2007, shooting death of his father, 40-year-old Darold Lee Evans. Dante Evans was sentenced to life in prison in 2009.
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The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a Panola County man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2011 shooting death of a Batesville man.
The court will not hear oral arguments in the case of Derrick Burdette.
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Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice William Joel Blass of Pass Christian has died. Blass died Oct. 23, four days after his 95th birthday.
Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. of Jackson said, “He was a great legal scholar and outstanding leader of the bar for many years. He lived professionalism by example and was an inspiration to attorneys and judges.”
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A judge has ordered a change of venue for the re-trial of Edna Mae Sanders and issued a gag order in the case of her husband’s death after she doused him with hot cooking oil.
Circuit Court Judge Larry Bourgeois has ordered the trial moved from Hancock County to Jones County. The trial will start April 15. […]
JACKSON – (AP) The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday granted a prosecution request to review a Stone County rape case. The state Court of Appeals last November ordered a new trial for Anthony Mercie Expose. […]
JACKSON – (AP) – The Mississippi Supreme Court has refused to block the June 20 execution of Gary Carl Simmons, a grocery store butcher convicted of killing a man who was shot and dismembered in […]
By Monica Land JACKSON – The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Jackson County woman convicted of murder in the death of an infant left in her care. Amy Danielle […]
JACKSON – (AP) On Thursday, March 8, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the pardons issued by former Gov. Haley Barbour during his final days in office, including those of four convicted killers and a robber […]
From The Mississippi Link Newswire JACKSON – (Legal Newsline) – The Mississippi Supreme Court has reversed part of a lower court's decision in a case over a state underwriting association's request to assess its members […]
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