Hinds County Court Judge Larita Cooper-Stokes ordered the eviction of attorney Isaac Byrd from his home on 14 E. Hill Drive in Jackson in April. Bank of America filed suit against Mr. Byrd in July 2014. The bank foreclosed on the home on January 7, 2014 at a sale on the courthouse steps. Hinds County deputies and several moving vans appeared at the home on June 30.
Bank of America claimed that Mr. Byrd refused to move from the home. It sent him several notices and finally went to court against Mr. Byrd. Judge Stokes ruled against him on April 7, 2015. She ordered him to vacate the premises by June 8. However, Mr. Byrd apparently did not move out of the home on that date. Bank of America presented the order to the Sheriff's office.
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He's got the blues
WHAAAT? You put a brothah on the skreet?
What happened to his tobacco money?
That is sad to see, he settled some huge cases over the years and gave away millions to various schools and charities.
It appears he got to live rent-free in a home worth close to a million dollars for nearly two years if one assumes he had not paid a note for five months when the foreclosure sale took place.
Well, I guess he learned "that if you don't pay, you don't stay".
Typical arrogance.
Meanwhile: In Florida and other places, vagrants are allowed by the courts to set up homestead in vacant homes that are on the market.
Ironically, you can see Wholefoods from his kitchen window
He has been extremely ill and partially paralyzed in recent years due to a massive stroke. He is still in a wheelchair and just started making public appearances again in about the last year or so.
@ 2:46 AM ..how do you know what the view is from this dead beat's kitchen window ?
Well, that house may have been worth a cool million bucks when Buster Bailey sold it to him Kingfish but from my experience in such matters when the situations reaches this point the house it usually totally trashed and may not be salvageable without HUGE expenditures.....good luck!
Um, @ 12:11 PM.. "just started making public appearances again" .. Really? Appearances where, in the defendants chair in justice court? Byrd is not some rock star or celebrity, he is just another dead beat individual that doesn't pay his bills. Public appearances my foot... geez...
Tens of millions have lost their homes since 2008 and tens of millions more still have underwater mortgages. Some have been deadbeats but most were not, some faced economic loss, some had serious health problems like Mr. Byrd and so on.
And they got out of their homes when they had to and didn't try to scam the system for nearly two years.
@12:44, um, yes. "Public appearances" is a relative term, depending on location, profession, etc. No, Mr. Byrd is not a rockstar, but he has been asked to speak at galas, business functions, and churches for years, in Mississippi and beyond. He had stopped in recent years due to his health.
Just because you are not in his social circle does not mean it isn't happening. You either get it or you don't dear...
And didn't file tax returns for years but got a pass. I was involved with some cases with him and he's no rocket scientist. It wasn't charitable contributions but terrible investments that got him-- like Primos Northgate.
um, @ 1:44 PM...maybe he was the toast of the town after he was included in the tobacco lawsuit by Mike Moore at the DEMAND of the US Justice Department and had lot's of $$$, now he ain't nothing but a broke bloke trying to scam the system, not pay his taxes and creating a situation where the sheriff has to physically THROW him the curb. (More tax dollars being wasted dealing with yet one more slacker) AND, don't call be dear!
When a person has had a stroke, it's time to stop being judgemental. His mental capacities may be seriously diminished. Caregivers may be making the decisions. Or maybe, NOBODY is making decisions.
But that's interesting, 3:44. Are you saying that he was included in the Tobacco lawsuit, to satisfy a Justice Department demand for minority participation?
@ 7:17 PM....First, please drop the "he dun had a stroke and can't be held responsible for anything" mantra. Byrd owns the blow back from the sh*#storm he has caused. It is astonishing to me that a rather large segment of our society think that they are responsible for nothing they do and become clownishly indignant when confronted with the dreaded "R" word. Secondly, that is exactly what I am saying about cramming him into the tobacco settlement for no other reason than minority participation. You must be the one that gazes out of his (formerly his that is) kitchen window at Whole Foods remembering what used to be.
I don't know anything about this particular case, but, I want to say how happy that I am with Judge Stoke's Courtroom demeanor when it comes to Unlawful Entry and Detainer suits to get someone out of a home when they are refusing to move. I am in her Court often and it is good to not have to deal with a Judge who will, without reason, give people two months more of free rent before they are required to move.
Didn't the 'tobacco lawsuit' thing happen during Junior Bush's watch? I'm not thinking Bush's Justice Department required minority set asides. Those were most popular with Clinton, and later, the current POS. Mike Moore pushed the 'work' to democrats. It's as simple as that.
Appropos considering Whole Foods' recent admission of gouging. The shine is off the penny.
6:31am....the lawsuit was during the Clinton and Muscrat reigns.
However; 9:20, it was your boy Mike Moore who selected the recipients of the associated largess. Nobody mandated involvement by particular racial groups. And it was prosecuted during the Bush reign.
Derogatory statement about someone you barely know is just uncalled for. I dont wish anything bad on anyone, but to those making such statements I hope you are well prepared if such health problems strike you out of the blue. Racist people always make excuses for their way of thinking.
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