Jackson Jambalaya

Convicted by a jury of his peers of sexual battery to a child, sentenced (illegally?) to three years’ house arrest, under a sealed record?

I hope the DA is appealing the sentence, too.

But yes, we need some DeSoto sunshine for sure.

I'd like to read the response by the defense before forming an opinion on this one.

I do agree that the sentencing in this was absurdly lenient but Barton is a pandering doofus, not to mention wildly incompetent at his job. Ask any attorney or judge in Desoto County. He’s doing whatever he can to keep getting on supertalk.

Agreed! Talk about something hard to defend....this is going to make the story have even more legs.

Is there a difference between a witness offering sworn testimony in the court vs someone submitting a mitigation statement to the court?

You have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Matthew Barton is a guy that's kicking ass and taking names. Why?... because he actually
intends on doing the job that he was elected to do. DeSoto County is behind you Matt....keep going.

Most elected MS "officals" top to bottom are worthless pieces of shit, and terrified that they won't get re-elected, so they go along with all the other elected useless idiots and don't "make waves" attempting to "be nice". Mississippians statewide are sick of its "old guard" men and women that do NOT care about them, or its children or its famlies. They're nothing but simpleton,
impotent do-nothings.

Following the mandate of your constituent voters is called courage fueled leadership......not pandering. Mike Hurst is another one such leader - as a frame of reference - who it was once said would "prosecute his mother" if need be....well look at him now.

Trying to work in Trump comments on this post? Not happening.

Just think, if she went to prison for this no one would be talking about it. She deserves jail time for what she did. It’s good someone is calling this stuff out.

Seems like the DA failed to do their job and convince the judge to sentence this person to prison and now wants to shift the blame to everyone else.

I read that the good Christian’s at the victim church did not come to support her and most came out to court to support the perp plus written statements in the perps defense. When something is really wrong I call on the name Jesus!

That's because people are tired to "accepting" bullshit judges' rulings.....they're corrupt as hell, and the people are sick of it.

They used to tar/feather em' for rulings like this.

To the DA you must be doing your job when you have constituents calling you bad names.
It’s really hard to do what is legal and right in a county with bigots! Good job DA, keep kicking ass as long as it’s not me! Wink wink.

Scorn the victim and bless the perp with house arrest, like the perp ain’t smart enough to groom more young victims to her house.

I live in Desoto County. Barton is terrible. He is going after people who wrote statements and who committed no cime. You can agree or disagree or whether they should have. However, they committed no crime. Barton does anything to get on the news. There is a reason the sheriff and others can't stand him. He is just a bad person.

After reading 5:11’s rantings I thought I had accidentally stumbled into another Todd Mardis thread.

Your honor, I tender to the court a motion to fix. (See you at the poker game Friday night. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)

Isn’t everything his fault?

The judge didn’t follow the law in sentencing the guilty perpetrator. It will be a shock if he isn’t instructed to redo the sentence based on the law.