JACKSON, Miss.—The Hinds County District Attorney’s Office resolved more felony cases in 2024 than it did in the previous year, a report released by the Hinds County District Attorney’s office says.
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“It was a good year for justice in Hinds County in 2024,” Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, who is currently awaiting a trial date on his own federal bribery charges, shared the news during a press conference inside the Hinds County Chancery Court Building on Feb. 12.
Last year, the Hinds County District Attorney’s office resolved 1,135 cases encompassing 1,794 individual felony counts, a 21% increase in felony count resolutions compared to 2023, the report says.
Felony counts can be resolved in a number of ways, including guilty pleas and verdicts. In 2024, the majority of those resolutions were guilty pleas, followed by pre-trial diversion programs (such as drug courts), the office’s 2024 Annual Report states.
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Owens said on Feb. 12 that diverting people away from incarceration by allowing them to go into a pre-trial program has always been a priority of his. “If we have this responsibility to prosecute people, we have the responsibility to help them re-enter our society,” he said.
The 21% increase in individual felony count resolutions in 2024 was the highest that the office had recorded in his five-year tenure as District Attorney, he said. He won the seat in 2019 and took office in 2020.
The majority of those cases were homicides followed by property crimes, the annual report states. “In 2020, we talked about the backlog, the grand jury backlog.
