In 2017, the Mississippi Supreme Court’s then-Chief Justice William Waller Jr. helped mandate that judges throughout the state explain in writing how they deliver on their duty to provide poor criminal defendants with a lawyer. Now, six years after the rule went into effect, only one of the 23 circuit court districts in the state has responded.
Caleb Bedillion, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Caleb Bedillion is the editor for political, investigative and enterprise work by the Daily Journal.
