Ghosts of Mississippi prosecutor goes to prison

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/01/disgraced_mississippi_judge_re.html


Disgraced Mississippi judge reports to federal prison

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Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation.

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DeLaughter was sentenced to 18 months in November after pleading guilty to lying about secret conversations he had with a lawyer while presiding over a dispute between wealthy attorneys over legal fees. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped conspiracy and mail fraud charges.

DeLaughter made a name for himself as an assistant district attorney when he helped put awayByron de la Beckwith for Evers' 1963 murder. The case was the basis for the 1996 movie Ghosts of Mississippi, with Alec Baldwin playing DeLaughter.

DeLaughter also wrote a book about the prosecution, Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case.

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This saddens me. I have watched the movie Ghosts of Mississippi several times, but I didn’t know this about Bobby DeLaughter.