Family Law

Mississippi Supreme Court says Nevada Barr should be punished

By Robert M. Kisselburgh, Esq.

Author Nevada Barr could be facing a bit of trouble. In her Jackson, Mississippi divorce case, she admitted lying under oath about an affair. Further, she destroyed a computer after her deposition when her husband's attorney wanted her to produce it. But this was not some ordinary destruction. As Nevada testified, she "took a cold chisel and a hatchet; I tore it apart; I then took all of the pieces that were inside of it and I put them in a metal box; I burned it by pouring gasoline over it, and I shoveled it into a plastic bag and I dumped it in a bayou."

The Mississippi Supreme Court was not amused. In a 5-3 opinion, it sent the case back to the chancery court with instructions that the chancellor "must consider imposition of sanctions and/or a referral to the district attorney to consider criminal prosecution for perjury and destruction of evidence."

Full post as published by Mississippi Family Law Blog on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).