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| Famed Miss. judge faces prison for lying to FBI |
| By google.com |
| Published: 11/13/2009 |
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JACKSON, Miss. — Bobby DeLaughter made history as a young prosecutor who put away a notorious civil rights-era assassin. The case became the subject of books and a movie, and put DeLaughter on a path to becoming a Mississippi judge. On Friday, DeLaughter will be the one standing before a judge, and the next chapter of his life most likely will be behind bars. DeLaughter, a 55-year-old former Hinds County circuit judge, pleaded guilty in July to a federal obstruction of justice charge. He admitted that he lied to an FBI agent during a judicial corruption investigation that brought down some of the most powerful lawyers in Mississippi. "It's a tragic fall. When you have a movie made after you and you're really a national hero, to be facing sentencing, I'm sure is a great embarrassment," said Ronald Rychlak, an associate dean at the University of Mississippi School of Law, who has followed the case. DeLaughter (deh-LAW'-ter) made a name for himself in 1994 when he was an assistant district attorney and helped convict Byron de la Beckwith for the 30-year-old murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Read More. |
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