In an 'extraordinary' move, Mississippi AG tries to overturn officer's manslaughter conviction
A Jackson, Mississippi, police officer was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a partially paralyzed 62-year-old man. Now the state attorney general has asked a judge to throw out the officer’s 2022 conviction, taking his side over the district attorney who prosecuted him.
The “extraordinary” move mirrors the political and racial dynamics of an ongoing legal battle over white Republican state officials’ attempts to assert more control over the justice system in Jackson, the majority-Black and heavily Democratic state capital and the seat of Hinds County, a law professor said
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