Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who works on civil rights cases. Attorney Alexander Brown sees the …
A Jefferson Parish, La., judge on Friday authorized compensation payments for four men who were wrongfully convicted of crimes and spent time at Angola. Henry James, 50, of Westwego, who spent almost 30 years in prison for his conviction of …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled a Madison County woman’s lawsuit stemming from her 11-month-old child’s death and her arrest in the case should be separate suits. The Clarion-Ledger reports that the Supreme Court ruling reversed Hinds County Circuit Judge …