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STABBING DEATH-SENTENCE Life sentence hand down in stabbing death of woman PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) – A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the August 2014 stabbing death of his girlfriend. The Neshoba Democrat reports 38-year-old Dennis Tyrell Miller was sentenced Friday by Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon. Miller had […]
(A) A blogger who pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to breaking into a nursing home and shooting unauthorized video of the ailing wife of a U.S. senator was sentenced Monday to serve more than two years in prison. Clayton Kelly, 29, of Pearl, Mississippi, shot the video of Sen. Thad Cochran’s then-wife in 2014 during […]
CANTON, Miss. (AP) – A 22-year-old man accused in the death of a Jackson State University professor has been sentenced to life in prison. The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://on.thec-l.com/1HkwxbL) Melvin Potts was convicted Wednesday in the stabbing death of Garrick Shelton. Potts received an additional 10 years on charges of auto theft. Shelton was found stabbed […]
By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The last of 10 young white adults who repeatedly assaulted black people in Mississippi’s capital city is set for sentencing Friday. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate is scheduled to sentence Robert Henry Rice of Brandon. Rice pleaded guilty to one felony hate crime charge in […]
(AP) A final pair of sentencings Thursday was supposed to wrap up the long-running federal prosecution into a group of young white men and women whose repeated assaults on African-Americans in Mississippi’s capital city ended in the 2011 death of an autoworker. But it didn’t work out that way. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate […]
LEXINGTON, Mississippi (AP) — A former assistant principal in Holmes County has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison for sexual battery of a 10th grade student. George Lomax, the former assistant principal of Jacob McClain High School in Lexington, was convicted this past week in Holmes County Circuit Court. District Attorney Akillie Malone-Oliver […]
The Mississippi Link Newswire What follows is the speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves that he read to the three young white defendants right before he sentenced them for the death of James Craig Anderson, the 48-year-old Black man. Anderson was beaten and killed by a group of white’s including the three defendants, running […]
OXFORD, Mississippi (AP) — The May 14 sentencing for James Everett Dutschke has been moved to Oxford from Aberdeen. The order was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court clerk’s office. No explanation for the change was included with the order. Judge Sharion Aycock will preside over the 10:30 a.m. sentencing. The 42-year-old Tupelo man […]