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Jeff Amy

February 18, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Ga. House Would Let Prosecutors Use Inmate Files to Fight Parole

The House voted 99-66 on Thursday to pass House Bill 168, sending it to the Senate for more debate.

By JEFF AMY | The Associated Press

3 minute read

January 21, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Judges: Pandemic Could Backlog Jury Trials for Years

Melton told state lawmakers that judges have been busy holding some kinds of hearing, using more online technology than ever before.

By Jeff Amy, The Associated Press

3 minute read

December 26, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Mississippi Chief Justice: Time for Another to Lead Court

Chief Justice Bill Waller's court has at times questioned problems with forensic evidence but passed when asked to rule on the legality of Mississippi's cap on punitive damages.

By Jeff Amy, Associated Press

5 minute read

April 24, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Stuck in Jail: Low Income Inmates in Mississippi Wait Long for Trial

A recent survey of Mississippi jails conducted by the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law and released to The Associated Press shows that 2,500 defendants—more than one-third of all of those jailed before trial—have been in jail 90 or more consecutive days. More than 600 have been in jail longer than a year.

By JEFF AMY, Associated Press

6 minute read

October 19, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Jailed 96 Days on Bogus Charge: It Is No One's Fault?

Civil liberties advocates in have been waging legal battles to reform Mississippi's criminal justice system, which provides almost no state funding for public defenders. Similar lawsuits have been filed across the country.

By Jeff Amy

10 minute read

August 18, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Mississippi Jurors Get Oil Spill Fraud Case Against Lawyer

Texas lawyer Mikal Watts and six other people each had plenty of opportunity to know they had a fake client list and were pursuing bogus claims after 2010's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, prosecutors told Mississippi jurors Wednesday in closing arguments.

By Jeff Amy

7 minute read

August 28, 2014 | Daily Report Online

Defense: No Evidence in Silicone Injection Death

Defense attorneys for a woman accused of killing a Georgia woman in 2012 through illicit silicone buttocks injections tried Wednesday to undermine the testimony of the lead investigator

By Jeff Amy

3 minute read

April 22, 2013 | Daily Report Online

FBI: No Ricin Found in Home of Mississippi Suspect

Investigators haven't found any ricin in the house of a Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge, according to testimony Monday from an FBI agent.

By JEFF AMY

3 minute read

April 19, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Miss. becomes 3rd state to sue BP for oil spill

Mississippi has become the third state to sue BP PLC over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

By Jeff Amy

1 minute read

April 18, 2013 | Daily Report Online

High court orders new trial over jury instructions

The State Supreme Court says jury instructions in the murder trial of Twonia Renee Williams were unfair and that she should get a new trial.

By Jeff Amy

1 minute read