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Newshawk: chip
Pubdate: Tue, 01 Feb 2005
Source: Hattiesburg American (MS)
NEWS0 1/502010311/1002
Copyright: 2005 Hattiesburg American
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Website: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1646
Author: Nikki Davis Maute
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?159 (Drug Courts)
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STARRETT TO UTILIZE DRUG COURT
Those accused of federal drug crimes could end up in a Forrest County drug
court.
Keith Starrett was the state's first circuit judge to develop a
felony-level drug court operation in Mississippi. Forrest-Perry Circuit
Court Judge Bob Helfich, who modeled his court after the one started by
Starrett when he was a circuit judge, offered to take some federal cases.
"I saw no reason to duplicate what was available and when Judge Helfrich
offered, I accepted," said Starrett, now U.S. District Court judge in
Hattiesburg. "I see this as a good way for state and federal courts to
cooperate."
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MAP posted-by: Beth
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