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August 11, 2008

Lawyer says judge’s assignment has racial bias

The attorney for a former Jackson police officer accused of robbing a credit union is asking that an indictment against his client be dismissed over senior Circuit Judge Swan Yerger’s assignment of criminal cases. Dennis Sweet maintains that his client’s constitutional rights were violated by Yerger not assigning the county’s two elected black circuit judges,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 11, 2008

Jackson City Councilman: No more gun sales at pawn shops

Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes said he wants to propose a city ordinance that takes away pawn shop’s ability to sell guns. “There’s too much violence in the city of Jackson,” Stokes said today. “I asked the young folks, where are they getting their guns and they say the pawn shops. I asked the older…