The Attorney General's office suffered another humiliating setback in Rankin County yesterday after Circuit Judge Bradley Mills issued a directed verdict in favor of former Richland Mayor William "Pat Sullivan. The Attorney General was prosecuting Sullivan for alleged payroll fraud. WLBT reported:
The Attorney General prosecuted Sullivan's brother, former Rankin County Tax Assessor John Sullivan, for sexual battery and simple assault in 2023 but the jury returned a not guilty verdict.
How bad were things for the A.G. yesterday? Judge Mills said:
There’s so much wrong with the state’s case, I don’t know where to begin, The state not only failed to prove intent, they failed to prove fraud, they failed to prove the fraudulent timesheets were submitted. We’re not gonna waste this jury’s time, not one more second.
Kingfish note: The grand jury refused to indict the late Dean Scott on similar charges. One must wonder if the Attorney General felt pressured by WLBT's reporting.
9 comments:
The AG fired most of their competent attorneys when she took office.
There was a possibility of him taking a plea bargain. He sure dodged a bullet by going to trial.
Well, Rankin County where careers the Teflon criminals live.
If I was WLBT/Gray Media leadership, I would be asking their little investigative reporter some serious questions, starting with why he reported that Pat Sullivan "... used leave time that he had not earned"? This bald and unsupported allegation, which the little guy reported as fact/true, has now been exposed as utterly defamatory. Will there be a retraction? Will there be an apology to Mr. Sullivan for defamatory reporting? Will the little guy and his tripod be shown the door for dishonest, slip-shod, click-bait reporting? Time for little guy to peddle his @$$ back to Booneville and find another line of work.
yet another loss to add to the lynn fitch collection.
only this collection , unlike the martha stewart collection, isn't made up of furniture and dishes.
He was found "not guilty," which is not the same thing as "innocent."
10:55...............another JJ, social media, and television trained ''lawyer''.
got news for you . in our system there is no such thing as being ''found innocent''.
you really should go retake 7th grade civics.
The Rankin Mafia will never be held accountable for their crimes.
@1055
No. It was worse than that.
The jury didn't find him "not guilty" because the judge literally wouldn't allow the them to deliberate. The prosecutor's case was so bad.
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