Comments on: Some notes on Scruggs, Wilson and Luckey based on the DeLoach letter…

By: NMC

NMC — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:04:17 +0000

bellesouth, the letter writer states that he was acting as an agent for a known principal– DeLoach was speaking for Scruggs, and says that he is doing so. And we know from sworn trial testimony that he was in fact handling financial matters for Scruggs. When’s one agent says “here is what my principal says,” and speaks within his authority, as here, it is an admission. Not hearsay.

While we’re not in court, that analysis also pretty well establishes the credibility of the letter in stating Scruggs’s view. The only question that leaves (not one you raised) is whether the letter, which was attached as an exhibit to a court pleading, is authentic. I may be assuming that, but that assumption isn’t a big stretch.

Are you saying DeLoach didn’t speak for Scruggs, and that he’s lying when he says he did? That puts us right back at the point of beginning: We know he in fact did speak for Scruggs on financial matters.

By: bellesouth

bellesouth — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:11:13 +0000

Your honor, I object.

On what grounds?

Hearsay.

It does seem odd that NMC would use a letter someone else wrote as evidence of what Scruggs believed or did not believe.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:01:18 +0000

OSA: Concur.

By: osa canuc

osa canuc — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:45:35 +0000

Anyone who thinks Judge Lee had an agenda or ill intent needs therapy.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:27:40 +0000

No, I don’t … not completely. Not at full face value. Not from that source. I have long thought the author bore watchin’. A lotta watchin’. Still think so … perhaps even more so. But separate and apart from his letter … there has long been a lot more unseen than seen … a lot more spoken in sotto voce. I have a lot more faith in cause and effect than in happenstance.

By: NMC

NMC — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:00:46 +0000

(I don’t)

By: NMC

NMC — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:00:05 +0000

Are you accepting at face value the statements about the “federal judiciary” in this letter?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:51:26 +0000

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

A lotta Bigs and Big Wannabes wanted (and continue to want) Scruggs kneecapped and plucked of his tobacco and asbestos gains. There’s a lot more going on off-stage than on.