On November 18, 2022, Justice Court Clerk for Adams County, Mississippi, Verna Johnson, created a false statement that caused Mrs. Jarkay Batteaste to suffer a False Arrest by claiming false allegations that was subsequently "DISMISSED" after Mrs. Batteaste had suffered humiliation, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution and violations of her 1st, 4th, 8th, and 14th Amendment rights. Mrs. Batteaste reached out in the attached photos to address her malicious prosecution and the false arrest to the Adams County board of Supervisors to inform the members of the financial, emotional, familial, employment, humiliation, reckless and illegal action taken by the now, disgraced former Justice Clerk, Verna Johnson, by creating a false police report. The Adams County board agreed to refund Mrs. Batteaste's bond money for the false charges that were later dismissed. Nearly simultaneously, the now disgraced former clerk, Verna Johnson, decided to attack and falsely claim that Justice Court Judge Audrey Minor, had acted inappropriately towards her and filed a false claim in a Mississippi Commission for Judicial Performance Complaint. In actuality the now disgraced clerk, Verna Johnson, sought to seize Judge Minor's seat in the next election in which she lost terribly in the election this November. Judge Minor, due to the stress that Verna Johnson had caused her, now, second victim of retaliation, to step down from the bench due to the stress and bullying by the clerk that caused Judge Minor who had served her community diligently for many years honorably. On October 29, 2025, Mrs. Batteaste, former Judge Audrey Minor, and her son, EJ Smith, Jr. served the Adams County Chancery Clerk with a Notice of Claims of intent to sue for the malicious actions taken on behalf of the disgraced former clerk Verna Johnson in a 42 USC 1983 Civil Rights Lawsuit. Days later, after having lost her bid to obtain former Judge Audrey Minor's vacated seat, that former disgraced clerk, Verna Johnson, had intentionally caused with false allegations, and due to her failing to be voted for by the members of the county, the former disgraced justice court clerk of Adams County, out of CLEARLY political retaliation and malice for her failure to seize former Judge Minor's, vacated seat as Justice Court Judge in Adams County, knowingly, intentionally and maliciously continued her pattern of criminal behavior and filed further FALSE criminal charges against the former Judge Minor, her so EJ Smith, Jr. and Mrs. Jarkay Batteaste for a second time. Seemingly supportive of these retaliatory acts continuously displayed as a pattern by the disgraced clerk, Wilkinson County Prosecutor, David Shephard Crawford allowed, aided , and abetted this disgruntled former clerk Johnson, while lacking probable cause nor ANY elements of Telephonic Harassment during the time of this former clerk Johnson who was steaming over Judge Minor, Batteaste, and with EJ Smith, Jr. criminally charged for having share the video of the online outspokenness about their having been harmed by the former clerk while she WAS ACTING in her OFFICIAL CAPACITY as an Adams County clerk, in an elected position of power, and he agreed and allowed this continuous pattern of maliciously prosecuted, already injured innocent three victims of this disgruntled former clerk Johnson.(Minor, Batteaste, EJ Smith, Jr.) Wilkinson County Prosecutor, David Shephard Crawford, acting with reckless disregard for the truth or these injured people's First, Fourth, and Eight Amendment rights, elected and chose to maliciously and willfully continue to further this Adams County disgraced former clerk's political retaliation all the while KNOWING that his conduct was unethical by any standards set forth in the Rules of Criminal Procedure or in his oath sworn to with the Mississippi Bar. Furthermore, this Mississippi Bar holder -#7807, David Shephard Crawford, should, at the very least be capable of reading and comprehending the First Amendment in the Bill of Right of the United States Constitution that includes freedom of the press, freedom to redress your elected officials in their OFFICIAL capacities, freedom of speech, and especially in this case, freedom of EXPRESSION, be it on a public sidewalk, on a public square or on Facebook or TikTok or any other online public facing platforms for that matter. In summary, David Shephard Crawford- Mississippi Bar # 7807, having presented to the Adams County Court, these preconceived and maliciously filed criminal sanctions upon innocent citizens who redress their grievances (online) and who chooses to willfully violate codes of ethics, these individual's civil rights, while lacking reasonableness, nor probable cause that any of these defendants committed ANY criminal act under Miss. Code Ann. 97-29-45 which never contained ANY lewd, lascivious, or obscene gesture with intent to abuse, threaten, or harass or with the intent to harm or inflict injury upon anyone in this attached video as evidence that is but a mere skit from a Denzel Washington movie, where the audio and voice overs cannot be construed as a threat or harassment while redressing their grievances to FREELY EXPRESS harm suffered falsely at the hands of an elected Adams County Justice Court Clerk as an elected official in their OFFICIAL capacities for unlawful and harmful acts suffered by and upon them. David Shephard Crawford, Mississippi Bar # 7807, of the Wilkinson County, Mississippi District Attorney's Office [20503], having previously FAILED to secure a criminal conviction for the disgraced former justice clerk, Verna Johnson, in The State of Mississippi v. Jarkay Batteaste years earlier, after the false charges were dismissed, for the second time, brought criminal charges against Mrs. Batteaste whereby he had FULL knowledge of Verna Johnson's retaliatory intent as well as FULL knowledge that Verna Johnson had previously been proven to be a liar and dishonest who even has a pending charge of perjury for her false allegations in her testimony during Judge Audrey Minor's Judicial Performance hearing. Also, Prosecutor Crawford, in the charges against Batteaste that were previously dismissed due to the clerk, Verna Johnson falsely claiming that Batteaste was the aggressor, failed to turn over to the defense a copy of the CCTV footage of the incident despite having FULL knowledge of that request by the defendant/defense on January 11, 2022 and seemingly INTENTIONALLY withheld favorable video footage from inside the justice clerk's office from Batteaste and her counsel and ultimately committed a blatant Brady disclosure violation that violated Batteaste's Due Process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and Rules of Criminal Procedure that is codified in Mississippi Code Ann. 99-3-7. Attached in this complaint are multiple photos to be used as supportive evidence of this prosecutor acting inappropriately under the rules of criminal procedure while maliciously and vindictively seeking a prosecution against these three defendants. I have also sent to your attached email a copy of the court proceedings that details these and other actions taken by this prosecutor to willfully and intentionally harm these three individuals. I would suggest that David Shephard Crawford Mississippi Bar # 7807 and his department be investigated by the Attorney General's Office of the Public Integrity Division. I have already filed a Mississippi Bar complaint that is en route, a Mississippi Ethics Commission Complaint that en route, and have filed a Department of Justice Civil Rights Complaint that is being reviewed as I create this Brady/Giglio Listing for this blatant and unforgiveable misconduct by a prosecutor. Lastly, I would suggest that not only would David Shephard Crawford -Bar # 7807, brush up on the First Amendment protections of freedom of expression and the right to redress our government officials for grievances, but I would tell him the EXACT U. S. Supreme Court caselaw that support the right to do so. U.S. Supreme Court opinion in; New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) and Baumgartner v. United States (1944) that highlighted the RIGHT to "criticize public men and measures" (Justice Court Clerks included) and that the established right to do so is what separates us from a police state. We fully intend on adding these blatantly retaliatory filed criminal charges filed by a disgruntled loser of recent judicial election as well as this prosecutor's maliciously filed false criminal charges to our 42 USC 1983 Civil Rights lawsuit in the Southern District Of Mississippi Federal District Court in 47 days and counting , as a supplemental addition to the claims sought in our previous Notice of Intent to sue Adams County and former Justice Court clerk Verna Johnson as a governmental entity and/or actor.