Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch Wants Killer Cop's Conviction Overturned

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Mississippi Legal professional Normal Lynn Fitch waves in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2021. | Supply: The Washington Publish / Getty

Welp, it appears like there is likely to be an lawyer normal who’s even worse about bringing justice for Black victims killed by police violence than Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron.

Meet Mississippi Legal professional Normal Lynn Fitch (and sure, when you squeeze her names collectively, you get “lynch”).

Fitch is asking an appeals courtroom to let out former Jackson detective Anthony Fox, who, in 2019, was convicted of culpable negligence manslaughter for beating to dying 62-year-old George Robinson, who was forcibly pulled from his automobile by Fox, who then struck him in his head and chest, in line with the Related Press.

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Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart dominated Robinson’s dying a murder by blunt-force trauma. Circuit Decide Adrienne Wooten sentenced Fox, 38, to serve solely 5 years of a 20-year sentence with the opposite 15 years suspended, however even that gentle sentence for beating an aged man to dying wasn’t sufficient leniency for Fitch, apparently. As a substitute, Fitch needs your complete conviction overturned.

From AP:

In papers filed Monday with the appeals courtroom, Fitch argued that prosecutors didn’t show the core ingredient of culpable negligence manslaughter, which is “wanton disregard of, or utter indifference to, the protection of human life.”

Robinson obtained “a small, superficial abrasion on his brow” however had no different seen accidents from the wrestle, Fitch wrote. Robinson, who had well being issues and was on medicine, had a seizure hours later and died two days after that from bleeding in his mind.

So, mainly, Fitch seems to be arguing that simply because Robinson died after being overwhelmed doesn’t imply he was overwhelmed to dying. Fitch, who, by the way in which, isn’t a medical expert, has determined that the wound Fox, who can also be Black, left on Robinson’s head is “superficial” and had nothing to do with the, once more, 62-year-old bleeding in his mind.

Or perhaps she simply doesn’t assume Black lives matter sufficient to throw brutal cops in jail for any period of time.

In truth, Fitch going out of her method to free an ex-police officer convicted of inflicting a civilian’s dying is so baffling even the Hinds County District Legal professional’s Workplace is basically questioning—”Woman, what the hell?”

“It’s the Legal professional Normal’s job to defend this verdict,” the DA’s workplace mentioned in an announcement. “If the Courtroom of Appeals needs to overturn the decision, that’s their job, not hers.”

Extra from AP:

The Hinds County District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned it may discover no different case during which the lawyer normal, who represents the state in felony appeals, took such a place. The assertion additionally says a number of regulation enforcement businesses issued ready statements inside minutes of Fitch submitting the transient on Monday, indicating the statements “may solely have been coordinated on the request of the Legal professional Normal.”

“The Legal professional Normal’s job is to make the very best argument for the State of Mississippi,” the district lawyer’s workplace wrote. “It’s a crucial a part of the adversarial course of. It isn’t her job to help or signify the pursuits of a felony defendant convicted by a jury of his friends.”

After all, when you look slightly deeper into who Fitch is, it isn’t terribly stunning that she has a “free my copper” angle in relation to police violence, notably towards Black folks. In line with the Mississippi Free Press, earlier this month, Fitch was accused of ignoring activists who’re calling for expenses to be filed towards six law enforcement officials who had been fired after being accused of beating and torturing two Black males, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker.

Suffice it to say, it in all probability wasn’t with a lot of a heavy coronary heart that Fitch’s workplace introduced final yr that it wouldn’t be prosecuting Carolyn Bryant Donham after a decades-old unserved warrant was found and a leaked memoir revealed the lies she instructed that brought on the horrifically violent dying of Emmett Until.

It’s additionally value mentioning that Fitch seems to be an anti-LGBTQ bigot whose workplace threatened Goal for committing the egregious crime of—*checks notes*—promoting Delight merch throughout Delight Month.

Fitch and 6 different Republican attorneys normal claimed in a July 5 letter to Goal Company CEO and Chairman Brian C. Cornell that Goal “wittingly marketed and bought LGBTQIA+ promotional merchandise to households and younger kids as a part of a complete effort to advertise gender and sexual id amongst kids.” (Whaaaah? Goal promoted merchandise throughout Delight Month that may encourage acceptance and even the celebration of the queer neighborhood? The horror!)

The letter additionally claimed Goal bought “anti-Christian designs, similar to pentagrams, horned skulls, and different Satanic merchandise” related to Delight, which, after all, is factually unfaithful. The AG’s workplace additionally expressed concern over Goal donating to GLSEN, “a corporation that promotes secure studying environments for LBGTQ+ college students,” in line with the Free Press. Fitch’s workplace claimed the group helps “secret gender transitions for teenagers,” which, after all, it doesn’t.

Anyway, hopefully, the courtroom will reject Fitch’s request and hold Fox behind bars the place he belongs.

Additionally, no extra bigoted, pro-police brutality conservatives in regulation enforcement, please. There may be no “justice for all” in any other case.