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Tameshia Shelton is freed from prison after 11 years. Court said DA failed to prove guilt ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ in murder case
Tameshia Shelton’s lawyers are asking Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens to dismiss the indictment. If he grants the request, her case would mark the seventh exoneration in the same judicial district — a state record.
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Feds charge man with making threats in Nolan Xavier Wells’ death investigation
Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce, 27, of Sacramento, California, faces a federal charge of interstate transmission of threatening communication for allegedly sending a bomb and death threat to Jackson County Chancery Judge Ashlee Cole.
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They spent years in solitary confinement in Mississippi despite suicide risk
MDOC for decades has regularly held incarcerated people in solitary confinement for weeks, months and, in some cases, years at a time.
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