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Radley Balko has a post with the news about the bill plus a bizarre development, from his Reason blog
First, the good news. The Mississippi House of Representatives has passed the bill requiring anyone doing autopsies in the state to be board certified in forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology. The bill now [...]

In my first semester of law school (in 1978), for property, I had Bill Champion for Property (Guff Abbott taught my section Property II).  In that class and upper level classes what he wanted to sound was themes from trusts and the like, and there was a way each class was the particularly subject through [...]

There is a bill before the state legislature to close an unfortunate loophole and require that any forensic pathologist hired by multi-county districts must be board certified in forensic pathology.  It’s HB 1456.  It’s just short of passage– all that is left is for the House to concur in changes made in the Senate–is backed [...]

The Motorhome Diaries folks have fired their next barrage against Jones County.  First, from an article in the Laurel, Mississippi Leader-Call that sums up the situation:
Pete Eyre, Adam Mueller and Jason Talley were traveling through Jones County on I-59 North on May 14 when they were stopped by Jones County deputies.
In Laurel Justice [...]

The Daily Journal reports that New Albany has a new (well, repeat, or used, or something) city attorney, but everyone gets paid:
New Albany Aldermen unanimously approved the hiring of Roger McMillin as city attorney Monday night. McMillin has served previously for almost a dozen years as New Albany city attorney.
He replaces long-time [...]

In a pretty nasty pleading– it’s not the pleading equivalent of a brushback pitch, this ball is being thrown straight at the batter’s head– the Government has asked the court to rethink appointment of counsel for indicted F.B.I. agent Hal Neilson.  To support their motion, they make all kinds of very specific statements about Neilson’s [...]

In Jackson, a jury has been selected in the Stanley Cole murder trial; opening statements are at 9:00 AM tomorrow.  I’ve been told that it will be live-streamed on WAPT-TV’s website in Jackson.  It’s top page says “Watch It LIVE On WAPT.com.”  WAPT describes the case:
Norman disappeared off the Jackson State campus Nov. 13, 2007. [...]

New Albany lawyer Robert Carter agreed to be local counsel for a class action against Toyota over sudden acceleration.  Recall that the as-yet-still-in-process Toyota plant is to be built in souteast Union County, between New Albany and Tupelo.
The suit (here’s the Toyota Class Action complaint) was filed in the federal district court in North Mississippi.  [...]

Jerry Mitchell has started a blog, devoted to his investigative work about civil rights era murderers who are still alive and not prosecuted.  His latest series of posts describe four individuals, still living, who he believes participated in the 1964 killings of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman (here, here, and here, particularly), and sets forth the [...]

Emily Wagster Pettus of the AP has noted the title of an actual bill before the Mississippi legislature:
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE MISSISSIPPI COMMISSION ON WILDLIFE, FISHERIES AND PARKS TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL HUNTING SEASON FOR TERMINALLY ILL YOUTH UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Mainly I’m not commenting because Anderson [...]