Days before the start of a trial that could send a Jackson woman to prison for decades, Hinds County prosecutors discovered a sheriff’s deputy had body camera footage they didn’t know existed and wasn’t turned over to the defense.
The footage showed a Hinds County Sheriff’s Department deputy administering a Breathalyzer test to Jada Kelly, then 22, who was accused of killing two people and disfiguring a third after allegedly driving under the influence in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 2023.
How did this 3-year-old footage go unearthed for so long? The Jackson Police Department neglected to include the body cam in the case it turned over to the Hinds County District Attorney’s Office — a recurring problem that attorneys in Jackson have identified with the understaffed agency…