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October 22, 2008

Punches traded in Melton motions

The Clarion-Ledger, 10/22/8 With three weeks before trial, prosecutors and defense attorneys in the federal trial of Mayor Frank Melton are trading punches in court documents with tales of drugs, prostitution and “whiskey-soaked” abuses. Last week, Melton attorney John Reeves filed a motion claiming Melton was acting as the city’s top cop in conducting a…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 22, 2008

Melton Was Drinking

WJTV, 10/21/8 Federal prosecutors are calling Jackson Mayor Frank Melton’s destruction of an alleged crack house a “whiskey soaked, arbitrary exercise of power and violence.” The 59-year-old Melton and two police bodyguards were charged in July with violating the civil rights of two people in a sledgehammer attack on a duplex the mayor considered a…