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The dissent in this opinion is excellent.

roid rage

This is the same supreme court that refuses to overturn that illegal Hinds County Judge Winston Kidd's statewide "gun ban." Someone should really ask the question why skinner issued a warrant. These children involved were being sexually abused by the father and the mother did nothing. I really don't care to much for Judge Skinner, but in this instance, he tried to protect the children and got hammered for it.

5:38 LMFAO!!!!

He signed a warrant after he recused himself. He signed a warrant on an attorney that was having sex with his kids.

Skinner won this!

I think they should incarcerate the judge for seventy-two hours without notice or a hearing.

He signed a warrant on an attorney that was having sex with his kids.

Sounds like a matter for John Horhn.

Concur with 4:53. Shame that only two justices dissented.

skinner is an egomaniac...much like r. graham. it's scary that he's a judge.

nothing really for or against skinner, but he had recused himself, as did all Hinds County Judges because a staff member is related to the litigants. Another Judge from Warren County had been assigned, Skinner knew that and re-involved himself knowing he had a serious conflict. The Supreme Court was peeved that the JPC glossed over Skinner's FOUR previous appearances over judicial misconduct. If this was his first offense, I doubt he would be suspended, but he's a vague version of an habitual offender it appears.

The Supreme Court is allowing the litigants to file briefs and be heard. The case hasn't been there long enough for them to overturn Judge Kidd. It will happen in time. Meanwhile, just use your concealed permit...

This action is sort of like the scenario when the feds can only get a mobster for tax evasion or some other lesser charges than the more severe crimes they have perpetrated but can't completely be proven because people won't talk. I hope the SPLC and others will make good on their previous threats to go after him for the constitutional abuses he has perpetrated on children and their parents. August 1, 7:38 is exactly right.

Why didn't Thompson make the news when it happened? This is big news! His own kids, sick bastard, sick.

@8:25 am
1) Judge Skinner broke the law.
2) He knew he should not be involved in this case and correctly recused himself.

No matter what the circumstances surrounding the case, if a JUDGE will not abide by the law, then there is a problem.

Skinner should have contacted the correct judge and sent the law enforcement guys to that judge. Instead, he break the law.

Kind of hard for a judge to rule over others when he himself cannot uphold the law. He could have upheld the law and been an example of good behavior and abiding by the canons. Instead, he broke the law just like the people who come before him.

THAT is the point of this case.

Instead of pointing to the real animal in this situation, we are beating down the only person that did something right. He saw only one way to protect those girls in that moment and he did it. Now whether or not we all agree with how he did it, he did it and a man that had been sexually abusing his children for over 10 years was punished due to it. (Not punished hard enough in my opinion) But I guess when you're a prominent, Caucasian attorney within Hinds County you can just kind of make things like molesting your three daughters go away. This is sick!

ah yes....Judge Skinner gets punished for trying to protect children and the man that participated in the MURDER of a Jackson police officer (Lt.Skinner) get REWARDED by being elected the mayor of Jackson..hmmmmmm....

11:59 am, you are MISSING THE POINT. Everyone could have been protected AND the judge could have followed the law.

There are millions of horrible cases out there---should every judge just pick which laws they are going to uphold and which ones they are going to throw away?

Skinner is good/Skinner is bad---this is not the case we are discussing. This case is about a sitting Judge not following the laws and canons.

If you want to change the law to say---in this or that type of case, the judges can write their own laws and rules---I think you'll understand why that's not a good idea....

I'm not missing the point at all.
How are you so sure that everyone could have been protected? When the warrant was signed, Thompson was getting ready to flee the state with his wife and daughters. What would have happened if Skinner didn't sign the warrant and the girls came up dead or molested again? I believe you are assuming that Skinner didn't think this through. He was presented information by credible authority and he took action. He was damned either away.

Judges who throw people in jail can do so without any criminal or civil liability. They have darned-near absolute immunity.

That makes it all the more important to discipline judges who break the rules.

You really do not want judges going "hey, it's against the rules, but I think it's for a good cause." Certainly not if you disagreed with Winston Kidd's injunction on the open-carry bill.

"When the warrant was signed, Thompson was getting ready to flee the state with his wife and daughters."

You have a link for that, right?

I've been working on this one throughout the day. That is indeed what Judge was told by law enforcement personnel who appeared in his court.

No, I don't have a link for it but if you go and read Skinner's response to the complaint and do some research and read the record, it clearly shows that when the captain of the Hinds County Sheriff's Department, two deputies, a US Marshall, and a Hinds County prosecutor showed up in open court that is the evidence that they presented. Thompson's wife was allowing him to be around his daughters which was a direct violation of the no contact order and they were getting ready to flee the state. This information was given to the above said authorities by Thompson's brother.

Any other information you need to be filled in on to make your opinion more solid?

My opinion is based off of facts, not based on a two paragraph article written about Skinner. Do some research please.

So, when all these law enforcement officials showed up in his court, did Skinner make any attempt to contact the judge to who the case had been assigned, so that the correct judge could issue the orders? Make a phone call, send an email, anything???? After he issued the order, did Skinner do anything to contact the correct judge and make him aware of what happened? Are there any facts in the record on that?

those cops should have been on-scene protecting the children, not in court seeking an unnecessary arrest warrant. they could have intervened without a warrant. Skinner may have good intentions, but he broke the law in several ways. Considering his past violations and the number of them, he got off light. nobody would admire the criminal and the evil things he was doing, but the rule of law is paramount in our civilized society.

I have no idea about his "past violations" but it seemed like he recognized an immediate, clear and present danger and protected the children regardless of the risk for his professional standing.

Skinner will always choose to protect a child over himself. If that makes him wrong, so be it.

I would share a foxhole with Skinner before any of you pussies.

What would Senator John Horhny do?

He's the hero Jackson deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a tan knight.