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MS - Mayor, ex-guard ask for trial delay

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View the article here 11/11/2008 By Chris Joyner - chris.joyner@jackson.gannett.com Judge to rule today Attorneys for Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his former police bodyguard, Michael Recio, pleaded Monday for another two weeks to read thousands of pages of evidence federal prosecutors provided last week. "They've had going on two years to develop their case. We've had since Thursday," said John Reeves, Melton's attorney. Melton and Recio are facing a three-count indictment charging them with violating the constitutional prohibition on unreasonable search and seizure in an Aug. 26, 2006, police-style raid on a Ridgeway Street duplex in northwest Jackson. According to prosecutors, Melton instructed several young men to attack the house with sledgehammers and participated in the destruction himself, while Recio and fellow bodyguard Marcus Wright stood guard...continue to full post

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