‘Never Seen This Happen’: Mississippi Judge Reverses Guilty Verdict Against Black Lawyer Who Recorded Traffic Stop By Embattled Police Department She Exposed
A Mississippi judge reversed his own ruling a week after finding a prominent civil rights lawyer guilty of multiple criminal charges in an overturned verdict that drew comparisons to injustices of the Jim Crow South. Attorney Jill Collen Jefferson, president of the civil rights law group JULIAN, also works as a professor at Harvard Law…