Jamie McBride, Assistant District Attorney for Hinds County spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the Club’s August 27, 2019 meeting. Mr. McBride has worked in District Attorney’s offices for over 17 years in Rankin, Hinds, and Madison counties. He is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of Mississippi College School of Law. He is one of 10 Assistant District Attorneys in the office of the Hinds County District Attorney. Per their website, “Our job is to prosecute cases and assist in bringing justice for the victims and put away the "Worst of the Worst".
Mr. McBride discussed the organization and activities of the District Attorney’s office and the challenges that it faces. The key challenge he cited was the high number of homicides in Hinds County. He cited that most of them are gun-related and they involve adolescent or recently post-adolescent males. He said that the county had 89 homicides in 2018 and that we are ahead of that rate in 2019. He discussed and described the Grand Jury system and how youth offenders are handled in the court system.
We thank Mr. McBride for his presentation and for his service to the citizens of Hinds County. He (center) is shown in the following photo with Club President Greg Campbell (left) and Club Member Larry Anderson (right) who introduced him.
