A 3-judge Mississippi appellate panel reversed a chancellor’s order dismissing a convicted prisoner’s public-records dispute towards a police division, remanding the case for an evidentiary listening to, discovering of truth, and different proceedings.
Omar K. Humphrey was convicted of capital homicide and sentenced to life in jail in 1998. He made written requests for public data in March 2020 to then-Chief Steve Holts of the Senatobia Police Division and District Lawyer John W. Champion. Based on the Mississippi Court docket of Appeals’ opinion, written by Choose John H. Emfinger, Humphrey sought a replica and transcription of a wire tape recording between him and a jailhouse informant, any police stories regarding the wiring of him, and sure statements he made to police.
