De Laughter To Serve 18 Months In Prison

    ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) - Bobby DeLaughter, a history-making prosecutor who became a judge, has been sentenced to 18 months for federal obstruction in a case that ended his career and brought down some of the most powerful lawyers in Mississippi. Tonight on News Channel 12 at 5 we’ll have reaction to the sentencing of this well-known former judge.
    The 55-year-old DeLaughter sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson in Aberdeen.
    The former Hinds County circuit judge pleaded guilty in July to a federal obstruction of justice charge. He admitted that he lied to an FBI agent during a judicial corruption investigation.
    DeLaughter made a name for himself in 1994 when he was an assistant district attorney and helped convict Byron de la Beckwith for the 30-year-old murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The trial was the basis for the 1996 movie “Ghosts of Mississippi.“