The Hattiesburg American, 9/25/8
Judge Randy “Bubba” Pierce confesses a number of profound beliefs, including family, church and Greene County High School football.
But should he one day don the robe of a Mississippi Supreme Court justice, the Leakesville native said those beliefs would have to be put aside in favor of the law.
“The Supreme Court should not be a place where personal views determine the case,” Pierce, 44, said Wednesday morning during a meeting with the Hattiesburg American editorial board.
“If the law says ‘A,’ then you don’t go to ‘B.’ You stay at ‘A.'”
Pierce, Chancery Court judge for Greene, George and Jackson counties, is challenging Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. for a Southern District seat on the state’s highest court.
A former state legislator who was appointed by Gov. Haley Barbour to fill the vacated chancery post, Pierce said his view on an issue like the death penalty is grounded in what the law provides.
