Brown v. Mississippi
Annotate this CaseMichael Brown was the attorney for the guardianship of DeMon McClinton, during which time he embezzled and/or mismanaged more than $1.2 million, much of it in Hinds County, where the guardianship and ward were located. He gave $550,000 of that money to Linus Shackelford as “loans” from the guardianship, the transactions for said loans made in Rankin County. Brown was convicted on two counts of embezzlement in Rankin County for making those “loans” with guardianship funds. Brown appealed his conviction and sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, but the Supreme Court affirmed, finding that the trial court did not commit reversible error during the trial in this case. However, the trial court exceeded its statutory authority with its sentence of restitution; therefore, the Supreme Court vacated the restitution portion of Brown’s sentence and remanded the case for resentencing.
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