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10-07-2010, 07:23 PM
Judge Jails Lawyer For Not Reciting Pledge
Attorney Spends Several Hours In Mississippi Jail
Posted: 4:19 pm PDT October 6, 2010Updated: 5:46 am PDT October 7, 2010
TUPELO, Miss. -- A Mississippi judge ordered an attorney to spend several hours in jail Wednesday after the attorney chose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn told a court audience to rise and say the pledge. People in the courtroom said Danny Lampley, of Oxford, stood but did not say the words. Records show Lampley was booked into the Lee County jail at 9:40 a.m. and released about 2:30 p.m. on the judge's orders. Lampley did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press. Littlejohn was not immediately available through his office in New Albany or the court administrator's office in Tupelo.
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Attorney Spends Several Hours In Mississippi Jail
Posted: 4:19 pm PDT October 6, 2010Updated: 5:46 am PDT October 7, 2010
TUPELO, Miss. -- A Mississippi judge ordered an attorney to spend several hours in jail Wednesday after the attorney chose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn told a court audience to rise and say the pledge. People in the courtroom said Danny Lampley, of Oxford, stood but did not say the words. Records show Lampley was booked into the Lee County jail at 9:40 a.m. and released about 2:30 p.m. on the judge's orders. Lampley did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press. Littlejohn was not immediately available through his office in New Albany or the court administrator's office in Tupelo.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press (http://www.ktvu.com/news/2455821/detail.html). All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/25307934/detail.html