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Robert Henry Rice, the final defendant in the federal hate crime conspiracy involving racially motivated assaults, culminating in the death of James Craig Anderson, will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate on Friday, May 8, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis for the Southern District of Mississippi announced that John Louis Blalack, 20, and Robert Henry Rice, 24, both from Brandon, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Jackson to federal hate crime charges in connection with their roles in a series of assaults on African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi. Blalack and Rice are the ninth and 10th individuals associated with a group of people who conspired to target and assault African Americans based on their race in the spring of 2011.
