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December 16, 2008

Ex-guards’ legal fees vote set

The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/8 It is unlikely again that Mayor Frank Melton’s two former bodyguards will get financial help from the Jackson City Council to pay attorney fees from their 2007 state trial. The request on behalf of Michael Recio and Marcus Wright was not approved in October when the vote ended in a tie .…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 16, 2008

Lawyers asked to help judge clear debt

The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/8 Mississippi lawyers have been asked to help incoming state Supreme Court Justice Jim Kitchens wipe out a campaign debt of about $300,000. Kitchens spent more than a half-million dollars on his campaign to unseat Chief Justice Jim Smith in the November general election. An e-mail letter sent out to lawyers by the…