<p>Never underestimate humans’ complexities. I imagine that people who do heinous deeds also can do awesome good just as the reverse was true for this man.</p>
<p>""CNN) – Bobby DeLaughter – the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case – is himself now headed to prison.</p>
<p>It was DeLaughter’s dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klax Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of civil rights cold cases.</p>
<p>DeLaughter became an instant hero of the civil rights movement. Alec Baldwin portrayed him in the 1996 movie, “Ghosts of Mississippi,” and his closing statement was once dubbed one of the greatest closing arguments in modern law.</p>
<p>“Is it ever too late to do the right thing?” DeLaughter told the jury of eight blacks and four whites. “For the sake of justice and the hope of us as a civilized society, I sincerely hope and pray that it’s not.”</p>
<p>DeLaughter would go on to become a state judge in 2002. His years in the robe came to an end in 2009, when DeLaughter pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for lying to an FBI agent in a far-reaching corruption probe that has rocked Mississippi’s judicial system…</p>
<p>“This is a Shakespearean tragedy in the sense that a person falls from grace due to their own character defects – in this case, misplaced trust in a friend and, perhaps, some combination of ambition and hubris,” said Matt Steffey, a law professor at Mississippi College School of Law."</p>
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