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Jail Docket May 2022
Thu,05/26/22-12:30PM, 950 Reads
The arrest records are published weekly and information in the records is obtained directly from the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department Docket Book.
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Dr. Arnold Smith, below, became wildly fixated on Lee Abraham, above -- an obsession that prosecutors claimed led to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Greenwood attorney in 2012. Smith has not had to face a criminal trial because of his mental illness and settled in 2019 a lawsuit filed by Abraham.

Trial might never happen for alleged murder-for-hire plot
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Sun,05/01/22-1:34PM, 4,754 Reads 105,126 Statewide
It had the makings of the trial of the century.
Dr. Arnold Smith, an eccentric but accomplished oncologist with a maniacal obsession about Lee Abraham, had been charged with hiring a felon to try to assassinate the Greenwood attorney, but the felon was gunned down instead.
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Jail Docket for April 2022
Thu,04/28/22-3:00PM, 4,276 Reads
The arrest records are published weekly and information in the records is obtained directly from the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department Docket Book.
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Paul West

Attorney general: No chance at parole for West
By KEVIN EDWARDS - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,04/15/22-8:02AM, 629 Reads 45,891 Statewide
A former Franciscan friar convicted of sexually abusing a Greenwood grade-school student in the 1990s will have no chance at parole, according to the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office.
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