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October 2, 2008

Judge seeking reforms in change-of-venue law

The Clarion-Ledger, 10/2/8 The judge in Curtis Giovanni Flowers’ fifth trial, furious that two people may have lied to get on the jury, is pushing a change in state law to allow prosecutors to move trials out of concern for fairness. But Andre de Gruy, one of Flowers’ attorneys, said it’s a defendant’s constitutional right…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 2, 2008

Some public info destroyed

The Clarion-Ledger, 10/2/8 Without any official guidance from the state, some local governments are destroying untold numbers of public documents by hitting the “delete” key. The Local Government Records Committee, an obscure committee of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that sets rules on government recordkeeping, held a special hearing Wednesday to discuss how…