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March 28, 2012

Rift among MS House Dems? Ed Blackmon argues against David Baria’s stance on pardons

Baria proposes changes to governor’s pardons Baria said his legislation would require the local district attorney and sheriff where a crime happened be notified when a convict requests a gubernatorial pardon. The DA and sheriff would be required to notify the victims and their families and hold a public hearing, and send a transcript of…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 27, 2012

NMC – Ed Peters will not testify in Scruggsapolooza II

Scruggs II afternoon update The big news from the courtroom today is that Ed Peters won’t testify. The lawyers for both the Government and Scruggs says that Cynthia Stewart, Peters’s lawyer, stated that he is so deaf he could not hear the questions, and so they are using his FBI interview statements and his grand…