Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement.
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney John K. “Bubba” Bramlett announced today that Demarques Smith, 30, of Jackson, pled guilty to hindering prosecution in Madison Circuit Court and was sentenced yesterday to serve 15 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. On October 29, 2023, officers with the Ridgeland Police Department initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle for a tint violation and smelled marijuana coming from the car. After a short search of the vehicle, the officer located various drugs, cash, and a gun in the car. The officers arrested both the driver, Damien Mason and his passenger. Two days later, Demarques Smith came to RPD and attempted to claim the drugs, money and gun. A detective from RPD got a subpoena and obtained Mason’s jail calls. Telephone conversations between Smith and Mason during those calls revealed an agreement between the two for Smith to falsely claim the drugs since Smith would merely be a first offender, whereas Mason would a habitual offender, if convicted.
Smith pled guilty to one count of hindering prosecution and was sentenced to fifteen years in custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Mason also elected to plead guilty, to possession of controlled substance and felon in possession of a firearm, as a non-violent habitual offender, and was sentenced to thirteen years to serve without the possibility of parole. District Attorney Bramlett stated, “Mr. Smith decided to help his friend out by making false statements to the police. Instead of getting what he thought would be probation or a deferred sentence, he was sentenced to serve fifteen years in prison for hindering the prosecution of this case.”
21 comments:
Too dumb to know he's stupid...
Darn, Smith was destined to be a Nobel Laureate.
I'm a law and order, throw the book at 'em kind of guy, but 15 years for one count of hindering prosecution is excessive, especially when the habitual offender who actually had the drugs, cash, and gun got 13 years. WTF?
Shucks, Smith was destined to be another Bennie.
@4:11 Likely knew him.
Honestly, I am not thrilled with having to pay for room and board for 15 years.
Great job guys, now we'll never get a cure for cancer.
2:11 Agreed! They all definitely need to be punished and jailed for stupid crimes, but this is extremely excessive.
"Mason’s jail calls"??? How many calls do you get? Ridiculous!
15 years? Really?
Only in Madison....
When their calls lead to felony prosecutions due to the recording of a criminal conspiracy...THEY PROBABLY NEED TO BE ALLOWED AS MANY CALL AS THEY WANT TO MAKE!
So they were caught with marijuana in their car and tried to shift blame and going to prison for 15 years? Crazy how it’s legal in a lot of states but here you get 15 years?
He will serve at most half.
Good. Teach the other criminals not to mess around in Madison. Y’all are ridiculous too little in Hinds, too much in Madison. The commenters here are a bunch of goldilocked snowflake cuckolds.
6:07, The post doesn't say what they were charged with possessing. It says the odor or marijuana was coming from the car, which means they were more likely riding around smoking it.
According to the indictment, the possession charges were for meth and hydrocodone, both enhanced with a firearm.
He was also charged with felon in possession of a firearm, and being a violent habitual offender. They probably could have charged him with DUI (other) and witnesses tampering/subornation of perjury, too.
But y'all keep smokin dat dope. Society needs dumbasses too, I guess.
Please show this article to all Hinds County Grandmothers/Big Mama’s, “teach you grand babies to read and understand the boundaries of Hinds County, do not enter Rankin or Madison Counties to commit a crime”! They won’t baby you, they will throw you butt away!!!
Need to relieve all Hinds County Judges and Prosecutors plus the DA and let their Madison County counterparts take over for a year.
“The officers arrested both the driver, Damien Mason and his passenger. Two days later, Demarques Smith came to RPD and attempted to claim the drugs, money and gun.” I’m understanding from this statement that Smith wasn’t even in the vehicle. He just showed up, zero involvement. Now he’s serving 15 years for trying to help a brother out.
Agree with 2:11, this seems excessive. How many Madison parents have done something similar when their teenager gets caught selling mom’s pills? Think they got 15 years? Not likely.
Verdicts like this are what give organizations like SPLC enough legitimacy to maintain their racket.
Most Madison parents are not doing this to keep their neighbor from being tried as a habitual offender thus trying to circumvent the law to keep a violent career criminal off the streets. But you keep thinking those apples are oranges.
For what purpose is the convicted sentenced to 15 years when he will only serve "at most half"? For what purpose does the convicted only "at most half" a sentence? Some wrinkle-brained geniuses must have had a reason for creating such a system. I just never read or heard about it.
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