US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case Tied to Suicide of Mississippi Lawyer

Family contends he was wrongly accused of aiding a scheme alleging that a US senator was having an affair while his wife was bedridden in a nursing home.
US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case Tied to Suicide of Mississippi Lawyer
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2024. Julia Nikhinson/Getty Images
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 20 that it will not consider a lawsuit filed by the family of a Mississippi lawyer who took his own life nearly a decade ago after being arrested due to his alleged involvement in a political scheme.

The request for a hearing in the case was filed by an attorney for lawyer Mark Mayfield’s family shortly after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals also denied a request for a rehearing.

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