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Mississippi clerk fined $10k
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May 8, 2012
Mississippi: Barbara Dunn, the Circuit Clerk of Hinds County, Mississippi, has been fined by the Mississippi Supreme Court...again. She was required to pay the $10,000 fine by the beginning of this week.
It all began on Sept. 30, 2010, when she was ordered to pay a $5k sanction from her personal funds for "recurring clerical disasters" in her office.[1] Later, she was fined over $9k for missing a deadline to file papers in an appeal. The latest ruling resulted from the way Dunn paid off her $5k fine--using an account containing both public and personal funds. She reimbursed the account with a personal check afterwards, but her failure to pay the fine solely from her personal funds is the main reason for the new, higher fine. The court also found that she failed to comply with some rules of civil procedures.[1][2]
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