Supreme Court rules Barbour’s last-minute pardons valid
by Associated Press Published: March 8,2012
Tags: convicts, courts, executive branch, governor, inmates, jai9ls, pardons, prisoners, prisons, state government, state law
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled today that some pardons issued by former Gov. Haley Barbour are valid. In their 6-3 opinion, the justices wrote “we are compelled to hold that — in each of the cases before us — it fell to the governor alone to decide whether the Constitution’s publication requirement was [...] [...]
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