As widely reported, the Mississippi Supreme Court disbarred former Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter on Thursday. Here is the opinion.
A terrible ending to the legal career of a lawyer who prosecuted one of Mississippi’s most important cases ever (against Byron De La Beckwith), wrote an excellent book on the case, and became a respected—but wildly unpredictable—judge.
I did not know DeLaughter personally, but I still find this matter sad. Not so much for DeLaughter, but for the entire Mississippi legal profession.