Bobby DeLaughter

Robert "Bobby" Burt DeLaughter Sr. (born February 28, 1954, in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is an American politician, member of the Democratic Party, former state prosecutor and then Hinds County Circuit Judge. He prosecuted and secured the conviction in 1994 of Byron De La Beckwith, charged with the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two earlier trials in Mississippi in 1964 had resulted in hung juries.

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