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As of Saturday, the state Supreme Court requires all poor criminal defendants to have a lawyer throughout the criminal process. But few lower courts are ready to change their procedures to accomplish this.
A federal judge in Mississippi ruled in favor of a convicted felon in a gun case on Wednesday while simultaneously slamming a recent landmark Second Amendment decision that expanded gun rights and changed the framework lower courts must use as they analyze firearm restrictions.