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Already sentenced to many years in federal prison, six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers have been sentenced in state court for their roles in torturing two Black men. The
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced Wednesday in state court. The six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who attacked Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023 have already been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from about 10 to 40 years. In March, U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called their actions “egregious and despicable” as he gave sentences near the top of the federal guidelines to five of the six men.
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a state judge Wednesday.
RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Six former law enforcement members who pled guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced again on Wednesday, April 10. Former Rankin County deputies Brett McAlpin, Daniel Opdyke, Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, and Jeffrey Middleton, as well as former Richland police […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader
The six former officers received state sentences on Wednesday that will run concurrently with their federal sentences, which came down in March.