James (Jim) Lloyd Davis, III

Mr. Davis is a third generation attorney with over 35 years’ experience in handling over a thousand felony and misdemeanor criminal cases in state and federal courts in south Mississippi. During this time span Mr. Davis has handled over 100 homicide cases, including numerous capital murder cases, which have gone all the way to verdict and he has actually obtained not guilty verdicts to capital murder, and has had numerous capital murder cases where the defendants did not receive the death penalty but received life sentence. He has had numerous death penalty cases reversed on appeal. Mr. Davis actually carried a federal death penalty case to the United States Fifth Circuit where he was successful in having the federal death penalty statutory procedurally found to be unconstitutional.