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Then Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch asked a judge last week to throw out the officer’s 2022 conviction, taking his side over the district attorney who prosecuted him. The unusual move ...
Mississippi Supreme Court ordered the attorney general's office to file a rebuttal to Robert Simon's defense on state's motion to set exectuion date.
Justin Matheny, Office of the Mississippi Attorney General, during the oral arguments for Midsouth Association of Independent Schools et. al. vs. Parents for Public Schools at the Mississippi ...
In 1982 the constitution was amended, removing the attorney general from the board effective July 1, 1984. [5] From 1878 until 2020, all Mississippi attorneys general were Democrats. [6] [7] The incumbent attorney general, Republican Lynn Fitch, was sworn-in to office on January 9, 2020. She is the first woman to hold the position.
Robert McDuff, a civil rights attorney at Mississippi Center for Justice, said it is possible the Mississippi case could result in a nationwide ban if it reached the Supreme Court.
Case Year Decided Holding Voting Dred Scott v. Sandford: 1857: Held that people of African ancestry (whether free or not) were not United States Citizens, and therefore lacked standing to sue. This ruling stood as precedent until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 7–2 Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict a police officer who responded to a call, and shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old boy inside the home.
Lynn Fitch (born October 5, 1961) is an American lawyer, politician, and the 40th Mississippi Attorney General. She is the first woman to serve in the role and the first Republican since 1878. Previously, she was the 54th State Treasurer of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020.