JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general can take over a case when a local prosecutor steps away, but the takeover must be voluntary and a judge cannot set
By The Associated Press
Jul 21, 2021 | 6:18 PM
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) â A man charged in the March 2020 shooting of a Mississippi judge stood up during a preliminary hearing for the case and fired his attorney.
Cameras werenât allowed inside the Lauderdale County courtroom on Tuesday, but a WTOK-TV reporter who was present said Ernest Edwards told the court that he thought another judge was hearing the case. He said he wasnât ready to proceed.
Edwards was arrested in March on an attempted capital murder charge in connection with the shooting Chancery Court Judge Charles Smith outside the courthouse.
The judge was shot with a high-powered rifle in an ambush-style attack while he was standing next to his truck, authorities said. He was in critical condition afterward but returned to the bench after two months of convalescence.
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Men sentenced in Wayne Co. assault, victim not happy with plea deal
Men sentenced in Wayne Co. assault, victim not happy with plea deal By Eddie Robertson | April 14, 2021 at 8:50 PM CDT - Updated April 14 at 8:50 PM
WAYNE COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - A high-profile assault case out of Wayne County has ended, but the victim says he isnât pleased with the outcome.
Trevor Gray was viciously assaulted in the early morning hours of April 13, 2019, while at a party he was invited to attend.
Two Waynesboro men, Landon McCaa and Thomas Brown, approached Gray and then began savagely beating him. The attack was caught on a camera and then posted on social media before later being taken down.
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Woman involved in case writes cryptic poem 2021 Jan 08
What started out as a regular day for the family of Christian Andreacchio in February of 2014, quickly turned into a tragedy that sparked a years-long search for answers about his mysterious death. New developments in the investigation regarding the young man s death mean that the case could be far from over, as 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant reports in The Suspicious Death of Christian Andreacchio.
Christian Andreacchio was just 21 years old when police say his live-in girlfriend Whitley Goodman and his friend Dylan Swearingen on Feb. 26, 2014 found him in the bathroom of his apartment in Meridian, Mississippi.