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In this May 22, 2014, photograph, Mark Mayfield, right, a member of the board of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, and attorney John Reeves, left, listen as Mayfield's attorney Merrida Coxwell, center, responds to questions from city Judge Dale Danks in Madison, Miss., city court, during an initial court appearance. Mayfield, a tea party official charged with conspiring to take photos of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's wife inside a nursing home, apparently committed suicide Friday, June 27, 2014, police said, days after Cochran won a nasty Republican primary.
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