Jackson MS will continue to have its current mayor, the witchhunt is halfway over. Frank Melton was having some inner city blues for awhile in retaliation of him trying to bring back to life his troubled city. He was charged with a misdemeanor for having a gun in his possession while speaking to a group called the Young Democrats at a local university. Because the charge has been downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor, Melton will no longer face the threat of being removed from office. This is just all absurd, it really is. His lawyer, Dale Danks, Jr, summed up my confusion:

"Shortly after the plea, there was a question of whether Melton still could be removed from office. The Mississippi Constitution states that public officials found guilty of "willful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office" must be removed from office.

"If that were the case, any elected official who ran a stop sign or pled guilty to fishing without a license would have to resign," Danks said. The line in the state constitution relates to crimes that show a neglect of duty, and Melton's gun offenses do not rise to that level, he said."

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