Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following press release.
JACKSON—Today, Attorney General Jim Hood announced the sentencing of 39-year-old Donald Turner, of Clinton.
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| Turner |
Also
known as Darnell “Slick” Turner, he was sentenced to 45 years out of
the maximum of 55 in the custody of the Mississippi Department of
Corrections. Turner was sentenced
on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm (10 years), aggravated
domestic violence (20 years), and shooting into an occupied vehicle
(five years). He also received five years for using a gun during the
aggravated assault and another five years for using
a gun when he shot into the victim’s car. Additionally, a protective
order by Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Jeff Weill, Sr. requires
Turner to stay away from the victim, who is his child’s mother whom he
beat up, hung over a bridge while strangling her,
then returned to assault her more.
“I’m
glad to see a person who has no respect for his own child’s mother put
away not only from her, but others who could be in his path of
violence,” said General Hood. “Domestic
violence is a very serious offense, and to have Judge Weill recognize
that through this sentencing should let other offenders know this
violence will absolutely not be tolerated, and our office will prosecute
it to the largest extent.”
Turner
was found guilty by a Hinds County trial jury earlier this month on one
count of each charge. He was arrested in April 2016 after being
indicted for beating the then-22-year-old
mother of one of his children, shooting into the car she was in, and
dragging her to a bridge where he strangled her before suspending her
over the railing. After Turner left the scene in the Washington Addition
neighborhood in Jackson, he returned and assaulted
a person who was trying to assist the initial victim. He then drove the
mother of his child home while continuing to beat her.
The
Attorney General’s Office received this case after Hinds County
District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith recused himself due to an
admission in open court that he previously
represented Turner and that Turner visited him in his home.
3 comments:
The attorney General and Michael Guest are usually pretty good at issuing news releases about their convictions. RSS not so much. then again, you can't post what you don't do.
Wonder if the other cases that should have been indicted will be or is this the only one they cared about?
RSS admitted his conflict in the Turner case. Since he has not admitted his conflict in the other cases the AG's office cannot prosecute them but RSS still can...NOT!
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