Fallout continues over the Attorney General's failed prosecution of two Capitol Police officers. Governor Tate Reeves expressed his thoughts on Facebook:
When the State of Mississippi created the Capitol Complex Improvement District, we knew the first step to long term recovery for the city of Jackson was a return to an understanding of law and order. So we began by building the Capitol Police.It was not easy.It was not without risk.It was not without litigation.Some of our police officers were put in incredibly dangerous situations. They responded in a manner consistent with protecting the citizens of Jackson and the surrounding areas.And they helped change the trajectory of our state’s capital city.I appreciate Chief Bo Luckey. I appreciate the men and women of Capitol Police.I didn’t hear the entirety of the testimony in this case, and I don’t know why the AG chose to prosecute…But our men and women in uniform deserve our utmost respect. I back the blue. Mississippi backs the blue.And I will continue to pray daily for our officers that sacrifice to keep us safe!!
State Auditor Shad White chimed in as well:
Lynn Fitch has spent more time prosecuting law enforcement this year than she has on any of the government fraud cases I’ve sent her.
Ag Commish Andy Gipson made his thoughts quite clear:
I was pleased to see the jury got it right by refusing to convict the two Capitol Police officers on trial for "imperfect self-defense" in Hinds County. These officers should never have been prosecuted for defending their own lives from imminent danger in the line of duty.
Local attorney Dorsey Carson explained the finer points of criminal trials to the Attorney General:
Mississippi’s top prosecutor Lynn Fitch needs a refresher on what constitutes a tie. Lynn, a hung jury is not a tie. It was nowhere close to a unanimous jury. This isn’t a football game, and you don’t get to award yourself half a win. One officer acquitted. The other case ended in a hung jury. The September 28 result was one acquittal, one mistrial, and zero convictions—not a split decision. The facts never supported this prosecution, and a tragic loss of life deserves the truth, not your creative scorekeeping. The courtroom isn’t a campaign, and a mistrial isn’t a participation trophy. The jury has spoken where it could. The rest isn’t a tie.
Kingfish note: The vote on the hung jury was 8 voting guilty to 4 voting not guilty. There were only 3 whites on the jury. Two of the whites voted not guilty.
25 comments:
Lynn, Lynn, Lynn. Unforced error.
Uh Oh….
There are certainly times when law enforcement officers step over a line and need to be punished or prosecuted. This was not one of those times and it just makes no sense that Lynn Fitch would have prosecuted these cases. If she couldn't get convictions with Hinds County juries, that just proves what she should have known - that there wasn't a case there.
Lynn has an ERA of about 12.0.
Lynn incorrectly thought that if she could convict a couple of white cops in a black city she would be a shoo-in for the governor's office.
@Dorsey Carson - Excellent!
what was so different that this jury was 8/4 ?
I’m voting for Andy Gipson for governor. I don’t care if y’all think his hat and how he talks is goofy. There is not a corrupt bone in his body and he will be proactive instead of reactive to things in this state. There has never been a Mississippi state-wide politician that actually listens to people like him. You can comment on his Facebook and he will reply right back and with no bullcrap run-around answer. I think he actually has the balls to handle the crime in Jackson and lots of our little cities.
Dorsey takes the gloves off.
Bye Bye any elected office............. finally.
Thankfully for the officers, she didn’t fight to prosecute them as hard as she fought her stepmother for her father’s inheritance!
Mississippi would get better results with Attorney General Daisy May Moses.
Tater supports Gunn. Uh-oh. Fitch is a bare minimum- done.
The question is who in the A.G.'s office pushed this?
Same question here! Come on man you can get to the bottom of that.
Sometimes it's easy to spot the office holders who value political advancement above principles. I think Fitch lost a ton of support over this.
Sometimes an organization has a critical mass of less than competent people and bad things have enough inertia to happen just because nobody does enough to prevent them.
The political posturing and pandering on all sides is pitiful. But the sheep eat it up every time. You can't fix stupid.
The most comical aspect of all this is that Lynn thought she should run for governor!
Don't dare try and clean up the highway ROW next to your property while logging either. She'll come at you with a double stumpage demand for the finest pole timber you can grow for cleaning up some scrub that makes it safer and more appealing to everyone and the state would have had to spend money to clean up anyway....
I think the Lynn Fitch "For Mississippi" campaign is over with. Everyone from the capital to the country is tired of her.
FLF...
From my understanding, Deputy Attorney General Lindsey Cranford may have had a role in the handling of this matter. There is also a potential conflict or appearance of a conflict that I believe deserves to be examined.
Her husband, Clay Cranford, is currently running for District Attorney in Forrest County. That is the same office that agreed to take the other case involving Michael Rhinewalt after the Attorney General’s Office was dismissed from that matter because the office had previously represented Michael in his civil capacity in connection with the same case.
What raises additional questions for me is the timing. My understanding is that the Forrest County District Attorney’s Office agreed to take the case on the very date that Judge Wooten’s deadline for doing so expired.
I am not making these statements to accuse anyone of wrongdoing. I am asking for transparency and accountability regarding the circumstances, relationships, timing, and decisions surrounding this case. When the consequences of a case can extend far beyond one officer or one family, the public deserves to understand exactly how these decisions were made and whether any potential conflicts were properly addressed.
Tell me racial makeup isn't the determative factor in almost all trial outcomes-
The guv says he doesn't know why the Fitchster decided to prosecute. I do. She knows damned well she will not get white male votes and will only garner a handful of liberal white female votes. She knew the only way to get the black vote was to prosecute and win this case. If she's a gambler, she's a damned poor one.
Look, now, for her to immediately come out with some self-serving explanation like she does when she joins in with 30 other state AGs, while she has zero to do with any of those cases.
The woman should never have been elected to office and in fact was a no-show (in effectiveness) in every position she's held since Haley put her in a gubment job. Either we can blame it on white, liberal females or Haley Barbour who sponsored her from the little girl in the red dress to the old worn out state employee who now gets to go home to the farm.
I don't know how she can hold her head up after sponsoring this failed prosecution.
I hope the Southern Baptist Pastor & Ag commissioner toasted his chance of election to Governor with his theology stance on Judge Ali.
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