🚨BOLIVAR COUNTY FIRST DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION REVERSED AND REMANDED - FOR A SECOND TIME!🚨

The Mississippi Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a 2024 first degree murder conviction of CLF client Jacqueze Marshall. This is the second time Mr. Marshall’s murder conviction has been reversed by a higher court on appeal.

In a 17 page opinion, all ten justices of the the Court of Appeals unanimously found that Mr. Marshall was denied his right to a fair trial.

Many thanks to long time friend Atty Mollie McMillin of Jackson for successfully briefing the appeal.

We understand that reversals of convictions, particularly in murder cases, present strong feelings on both sides. An individual was killed. A family has lost their loved one. We are not invalidating any of those feelings.

But it’s important for the public to know that the system works, including at the appellate level.

As a defense attorney, the Mississippi rules of professional conduct task us with zealously advocating for our clients.

Carr Law Firm is going to do that every.single.time.

But, sometimes the public (and even our friends and family) equate advocacy with cosigning on a clients alleged actions. That is not what defending means.

Defending means to advocate for the preservation of a person’s constitutional rights, no matter his or her station in life.

YOUR rights.

This is what makes America different from so many other counties in the world.

And as our Senior Circuit Judge tells every jury pool - “A lot of people went to foreign lands to fight for those rights, and many did not come home.” And he’s right.

If a person’s 5th and 6th amendment rights to have a fair trial and confront evidence and witnesses do not matter, then nobody’s constitutional rights matter.

We at Carr Law Firm cannot promise you a result in any given case.

But we can promise you that you are going to give you that fair trial. Because your rights DO matter.

We will make sure the government does not convict you because they “say so”. It has to be fair. And if it’s not, we call it out.

That’s what we did here for Mr. Marshall….again.

A new trial would likely be set later this year or next year.