Depending on who is asked, H.B. 1020 and the recently expanded Capital Complex Improvement District (“CCID”) were either a solution to Jackson’s well-known crime problem…
Second Amendment jurisprudence has been revamped in the wake of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, handed down by the United…
Bruen, U.S. v. Bullock, and rethinking bar admission prohibitions in Mississippi I. Bullock and Bruen Since Bruen, federal courts have heard numerous Second Amendment…
How the Possibility of Executive Clemency Makes it Easier for Judges to Issue Harsh Decisions As a constitutional law professor, I especially enjoy teaching the…
Written By: Peyton Pope Change Could Be Coming In the United States of America, all children have the right to an education. They will learn…
Written By: Kelsi Baldwin Although the debate on capital punishment spans generations, the conversation became more complex with the 1982 execution of Charlie Brooks Jr.,…
Written by: Jaime Weida To sustain a criminal conviction in Mississippi, the State must prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but does the…
Written by: McKenna Stone Cloud For the past thirty years, the legal community has been puzzled over what amounts to a “seizure” of a person…
Written by: Katelyn Pearson Summary of the Case Roy Harness and Kamel Karriem, as a result of their convictions of crimes under § 241 of…
Written by: Megan Rogers-Hasie Summary of the Case In August of 2004, Brett Jones, Jr., then fifteen years old, was living with his grandparents, Madge…
