The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the.
Tue, Mar 9th 2021 3:37pm
Tim Cushing
The end of a crooked and corrupt era in Mississippi is still paying long-belated dividends to wrongly convicted criminals in Mississippi. The state that has defined backwater for so many years is slowly crawling out of its self-created gutter.
Eddie Lee Howard has been freed. And it took only 26 years. Howard was convicted of murdering Georgia Kemp back in 1995. He was 38 at the time he was arrested. He is now 67. And he is being freed.
The case was built on the testimony of two supposed experts, an overworked (and underqualified) coroner (Dr. Steven Hayne) and Dr. Michael West, a self-avowed bite mark expert. In reality, state medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne was just another cog in the conviction wheel a coroner who somehow managed to perform more than six autopsies a day.