Must have been somebody else that lives in Hattiesburg.
If you’re retired or have the time and especially if you live in a city, I think it is worth going and watching general sessions court for a morning. Sit in the front behind the prosecutors and see how the sausage is made. Criminal court too, to see the contrast, if you’re really interested.
A lot of the stuff that people associate with the fairness of the criminal Justice system aren’t enforced obligations against prosecutors or police. Even the ones that are obliged are defined narrowly and rarely enforced. They generally have to be raised by the defendant.
The way Chattanooga used to be set up, there were too many cases for the first prosecutor to really know wtf was going on. Generally, the cops told them what they needed to know and the police essentially drove the bus until it got through the grand jury and everything got turned over to the felony prosecutor an defense attorney. General Sessions was a sieve. The system was sorting out most of the minor stuff where there was no dispute of fact and a bit of the more serious stuff where the state was unlikely to win on the facts.
The grand jury is a secret proceeding. I’ve never been on one but just piecing things together it is minimalistic process that may spend a few minutes on each case, they mostly just read them the affidavit and answer any questions.