The wheels of justice rattled on in the days after Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens pleaded guilty to conspiracy and resigned from office.
As the now-former district attorney cleaned out his office on the fifth floor of the Hinds County Courthouse, more routine scenarios unfolded in the courtrooms below.
In Circuit Judge Debra Gibbs’s courtroom Wednesday, a 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 40-year sentence…