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Hinds Co. judge who presided over De La Beckwith trial passes away Hinds Co. judge who presided over De La Beckwith trial passes away (Source: WLBT) By Anthony Warren | April 5, 2021 at 8:43 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 9:00 PM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A judge who presided over the murder case of the man who assassinated civil rights icon Medgar Evers has died. Tuesday, the Mississippi Administrative Office of Courts confirmed that former Hinds County Circuit Judge Breland Hilburn had passed away. Hilburn, who was at one time the senior circuit judge for Hinds County, sentenced Byron De La Beckwith to life in prison following his conviction in Beckwith’s 1994 murder trial. ....