Barak Patton will no longer rape, pillage, and plunder in Hinds County for quite some time after he went to prison last month. Patton terrorized the Clinton area for years as Tomie Green and Robert Shuler Smith worked to ensure he never faced justice. Patton is the nephew of the late Hinds County Court Judge Houston Patton and Hinds County Constable John Brown. Being county royalty has its privileges.
Patton was arrested for shooting people, robbing stores at gunpoint, beating clerks, possessing stolen firearms, and raping a 14 year-old girl. Patton's reign of terror continued as prosecutions literally disappeared and Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green gave him sweetheart bonds.
JJ reported on June 3, 2020:
A grand jury indicted him in 2018 for aggravated assault after he allegedly shot a man with a shotgun in 2016. The case has never been adjudicated. It just sits, and sits.... and sits in Judge Green's court. Another grand jury indicted him in 2018 for allegedly receiving a stolen gun in 2017. That case lies around somewhere on Judge Green's docket collecting dust as well.
Patton learned his lesson well as he and his buddies went on a ten-day spree in 2018 as they robbed convenience stores and beat up clerks. Patton's bond was set at $1.25 million. However, none of the four defendants in the case were ever indicted. There isn't even an order from a county court or municipal court judge that binds him over to the grand jury. The case just disappeared despite all the media attention. Earlier post.Fast forward to January of this year. He was arrested for aggravated assault after shooting and robbing a man in Clinton. There is no indictment nor order binding him over to a grand jury. It is as if the arrest never happened.
Judge Green lowered his bond to $10,000 and placed him under house arrest on May 10, 2020. He raped a 14 year-old girl at gunpoint a week later. JJ discovered his special treatment by the Hinds County criminal justice system and reported it. The new Hinds County District Attorney, Jody Owens, obtained indictments a few weeks later for all of Patton's arrests. Owens filed a motion to revoke his bond and Judge Green revoked it on June 2. Scant condolence to the rape victim (Sheriff Vance said the father was in his office, crying his eyes out, over what happened to his little girl.).
The cases were assigned to Judge Green but were reassigned to Special Circuit Judge Frank Vollor in September 2022. Unfortunately, Judge Vollor took no action on the Patton indictments. Patton's cases were transferred to Special Circuit Judge James Bell after Judge Voller retired.
Patton pleaded guilty on October 14 to forcible rape, sexual battery, armed robbery (2018), armed robbery (2020), and aggravated assault (2020).
Judge Bell sentenced Patton to serve 25 years in prison but suspended 13 years of the sentence for the rape. The Court remanded the indictments for the January 2020 armed robbery and aggravated assault.Patton's crimes qualify for 50% treatment.
Synopsis of Barak Patton's Crimes
The grand jury indicted Patton for forcible rape and sexual battery of a 14 year-old child. Law enforcement sources said he was allegedly strangling her during the rape. The case is assigned to Judge Adrienne Whooten. The alleged rape took place just a few days after Judge Tomie Green released him from jail.
The grand jury indicted Patton on July 10 for two armed robberies and aggravated assault that took place on January 1, 2020. The indictment accuses Patton of shooting and robbing Clark Taylor. The case is assigned to Judge Green. Although arrested in January, he was not even bound over to the grand jury.
2018 Clinton Crime Spree
(First Indictment) Patton and his posse (Javien Palmer, Robert Kelly, and Roderick Carter) robbed their way through Clinton convenience stores in early 2018. The grand jury indicted him July 10 for armed robbery and conspiracy. The case was assigned to Circuit Judge William Kidd.
(Second Indictment) The grand jury indicted Patton on July 10 for armed robbery and conspiracy for allegedly robbing two convenience stores at gunpoint in early 2018. The case was assigned to Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten.
The grand jury indicted Patton on May 16, 2018 for possessing a stolen firearm in September 2017. The case was assigned to Judge Green. The case has been continued numerous times. It just sits there.... doing nothing..... doing its best impersonation of a Sopranos no-show.
Patton started his criminal career with a bang - literally. The grand jury indicted him for aggravated assault in May 2018 after he allegedly shot someone in September 2016 (Notice how long it is taking Patton to get indicted on these cases?). The case was assigned to Judge Tomie Green. The case has been repeatedly continued as it collects several inches of dust.
20 comments:
Hinds County felons sorely miss Tomie Green.
Absolutely criminal that these elected judges are allowed to continue as judges. Is there no higher court that can review the judicial malpractice of these judges?
But for the special treatment, he would be sentenced as a habitual offender, serving day-for-day.
About time. Years suspended sucks. Times like this I wish any victim could file a lawsuit against the judge and anyone else involved in letting this criminal go.
He raped a 14 year-old girl at gunpoint a week later. JJ discovered his special treatment by the Hinds County criminal justice system and reported it.
While the Democrat elites at the "Free Press" and "Mississippi Today" said and reported absolutely NOTHING.
LaddCo and the Barksdalers are full of shit. When you 'contribute' to that sort of journalism all you are doing is condoning and enabling incompetent outfits that PURPOSEFULLY look the other way.
Just say No.
Put a snitch jacket on him to make his days a bit longer at Parchman.
Barak Patton you are lucky to have walked the streets in Jackson for so long! Your dreams now will consist of baby oil! If you are slow and unaware of the baby oil remark. Ask diddy, best wishes my brother there was a better way! Judge Green, ex DA Smith and DA Jody Owens have destroyed the confidence of the citizens of Jackson and Hinds County.
Sadly, Faye Peterson is now a circuit judge and will likely be there until she decides to retire. Hinds County will continue its decline, who knows what the bottom looks like.
To the people of Hinds County, elect officials that will protect all law abiding citizens from these animals like inmate Patton. Do your research, you got to get a handle on your crime problem! Elect someone who will put these fools away for a long, long time! I know you love big mamma, she could be their next victim!
Faye Peterson? Dude she is not the problem. You have Wooten who thinks she is in a court of equity not law. And then you have Gibbs who, in the face of this website reporting her lack of trials, now has two unelected judges hearing cases for her in a single judicial seat.
Peterson and Kidd are the only two who are keeping the dockets moving and sentencing criminals to real time.
@10:02pm - Correct, Gibbs is wholly incompetent and unqualified for that position. Vastly more so than her predecessor Green or Wooten, hence why there are special judges doing her job for her. Kingfish should dig into this more. She is a clown show, no one wants to work for her. I’m sure she’ll keep getting reelected though, this is Hinds County after all.
This is where vigilante justice is required. Someone should have fixed this problem a long time ago.
Given the malevolent nature of this youth’s crimes, that tentative release date of 10/7/2039 doesn’t sound comforting.
This is awful and a nationwide problem. Legal cases of all types , including criminal trials take too long and attorneys can deliberately delay justice with asking for rulings on tedious issues that aren't relevant and overwhelming the court with demands for discovery or responding to discovery with boxes of paper, most of which is irrelevant but has to be considered.
The irony to me is the politicians and "entrepreneurs" and corporations who have used the system for years until a pardon becomes available and y'all only care if it's YOUR guy that gets off Scot free and you want the OTHER guy to be put under the jail.
You'd have every citizen in this country in favor of streamlining the courts and holding attorneys responsible for frivolous suits and sanctions for " papering " the law with irrelevant documents and request with no basis for inclusion.
Vigilantly law makes for fun action movies but if you read actual history, you know that there were many innocent bystanders killed. And, for you weekend cowboys( which actually was the nickname for the outlaws who stole horses and robbed stagecoaches) , it was NOT the ranch hands and marshals. You can look that up. Indeed, there's a wonderful documentary about Doc Holiday based on actual documentation and family records. There's non-fiction available for other media created heroes of the Old West. And, the lovely days here when the KKK ran the state.
A simple solution to Hinds County elected Judges to do their jobs! A vote of no confidence published in every media outlet. You’re Fired!
"Judge Bell sentenced Patton to serve 25 years in prison but suspended 13 years of the sentence for the rape."
Speaking of criminal....
Start posting the crimes committed and the sentence imposed by the Hinds County Judges in all media outlets. Sorry it comes to this, but these reckless Judges are going to get someone killed. And it better not be my big mamma!
12 years to serve. What a travesty of justice. Will get out and commit another crime right away.
I come to the VA in Jackson once a month! The route I travel is fairly safe. I take care of my grandma but leave her alone that day for a few hours. I just pray nothing happens to me on my trip to and from Jackson. My grandma is all I have! To the Hinds County Judges, treat these criminals as if, it was your grandma, the victim of their senseless crimes. Thanking you in advance!
If the victim was rich he would had gotten life
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