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August 6, 2024
District Attorney Daniella M. Shorter announced the conviction of Clifford Green of Kidnapping and Robbery with a Deadly Weapon.
On August 8, 2024, Clifford Green appeared in Claiborne County Circuit Court and pled guilty to the charges. Circuit Judge Tomika H. Irving sentenced Green to serve a term of thirty (30) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with ten (10) years suspended, twenty (20) years to serve, and five (5) years of Post Release Supervision for Kidnapping. On the Robbery with a Deadly Weapon, Green was sentenced to a term of ten (10) years, with those ten (10) years suspended. Judge Irving ordered these two sentences to run consecutive. While incarcerated Green was ordered to enroll in and successfully complete the Adult Basic Education (GED) program. As a condition of his Post Release Supervision, he was ordered to pay court costs in the amount of Four Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars and 50/100 ($427.50), the District Attorney’s investigative fee in the amount of One Hundred Fifty Dollars and 00/100 ($150.00), and a fee of One Hundred Dollars and 00/100 ($100.00) to the Mississippi Crime Victim’s Compensation Fund.
Should this case have proceeded to trial, the prosecution would have shown that on March 23, 2022, Fayette police officers responded to a residence on Farmer Street in reference to an alleged kidnapping and robbery. Once on scene, officers found the homeowner bloodied with injuries to his face, head, and hands. The homeowner told law enforcement that Clifford Green came to his home that morning asking for work and forced his way into the home, grabbed a knife from the kitchen area, knocked the homeowner to the floor, dragged him to a back bedroom and tied his hands and legs up with a phone cord. Clifford Green then took the homeowner’s car and fled the scene. The homeowner was able to free himself, called law enforcement, and an ambulance. Clifford Green was apprehended by law enforcement and positively identified by the
homeowner.
