Capital murder suspect still not indicted a year later
Mar. 15—TUPELO — More than a year after she was charged with capital murder in the death of her 5-year-old son, a Tupelo woman remains the Lee County Jail without bond and without an indictment.
Even though 28-year-old Brianna Nichole Young could face the death penalty, she has never been convicted of a felony, though she has accumulated $14,000 in unpaid fines with Tupelo Municipal Court in the past three years.
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