Miss. Supreme Court upholds 12-year sentence of man convicted for having cellphone in jail … after being arrested for a misdemeanor.

Hey Q, this is an R appointed judge with this ruling, is this what you call draining the swamp? These are the judges who will bring justice? By putting some loser in jail for 12 years after the cops forgot to take his phone when they locked him up in jail?

https://www.wdam.com/2020/01/11/miss-supreme-court-upholds-year-sentence-man-convicted-having-cellphone-jail/

Supreme court writes:

“Cases like Nash’s are exactly why prosecutors and judges are given wide discretion. Nash served his time for his previous convictions and stayed out of trouble with the law for many years. He has a wife and three children who rely on him. His crime was victimless, and the facts of the case lend themselves to an interpretation that his crime was accidental and likely caused by a failure in booking procedures. Nash did not do anything nefarious with his phone, and he certainly did not hide his phone from law enforcement. While I do not think this Court can find under the law that the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing, it is a case in which, in my opinion, both the prosecutor and the trial court should have taken a more rehabilitative, rather than punitive, stance.”