The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/27/7
Frank Melton has reason to smile today, acquitted on all charges related to the the damaging of a duplex in August 2006, and with that avoidance of felony charges, able to keep his job as Jackson’s mayor.
Melton should count his lucky stars. The jury obviously believed the case his defense team presented that Melton had no bad intent in destroying a place he deemed a “crack house.”
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