Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement.
On June 8, 2022, after a three-day trial Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens, II, announces a guilty verdict in the trial of David Lee Course, before the Hinds County Circuit Court. Course was convicted of the February 2020 First Degree Murder of Bernard Williams. Bernard Williams had been shot by David Course and Course disposed of Williams’ body in a trashcan in the back yard of an abandoned home on McDowell Rd.
David Course, who is currently in custody, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 20, 2022. Course was indicted as a violent habitual offender and his First Degree Murder conviction along with the habitual enhancement will require that Course spend the remainder of his life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
District Attorney Owens stated, “Our office will continue to hold those who do heinous crimes in our community accountable. Killing Mr. Williams and leaving his body in a trash can has cost David Lee Course the rest of this life behind bars.”
5 comments:
Glad to see trials in Hinds County Circuit Court- I though they had stopped doing that.
Beginning to think Life w/o Parole is better. Holds down on our taxes going to endless appeals of the death penalty that doesn't dissuade others from committing the same crime.
It's not too late for some blessings.
9:48, if whomever is responsible for moving those on death row to the firing squad would do their job, the death penalty would be a deterrent. Plus, it would end the drain on taxpayers.
From the crime summit:
"We have mental health issues that need to be addressed. We have social services that need to be addressed," Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said.
"South Jackson has over 50,000 residents. We don't have one outdoor basketball court," Crudup said.
Crudup said because of the lack of resources, some teens use crime as a way of creating their own "fun."
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