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The New York Times looks around the country surveying the impact of the Sklling case on honest services cases that don’t involve straight up bribery. The case starts with a newly sworn-in U.S. Attorney’s dismissal of charges in a Kansas case: On Friday afternoon, a federal judge swore in Barry R. Grissom as the United States attorney [...] The man who’s been repairing the clock mechanism for the Lafayette County Courthouse brought it back today, and set it up in the hall downstairs. This is the one chance the public got to look at it before reinstallation in the cupola. The courthouse was completed in 1872, and the clock dates from about then. Here’s [...] By far the most interesting reading in the exhibits filed with Zach Scruggs’s motion, at least from the standpoint of news, are three exhibits that are affidavits filed in the state bar proceeding in which Zach Scruggs filed a bar complaint against Tony Farese. Recall that Zach hired Tony at the time of his arraignment for the [...] There’s a lot of news in the motion Zach Scruggs filed. The most interesting is surfacing because Zach has filed a bar complaint against Tony Farese. In his response, Farese filed affidavits of prosecutors David Sanders (now a Magistrate Judge) and Bob Norman, along with an affidavit of Joey Langston. The purpose of [...] Bill Minor has a column based on having seen the galleys of Curtis Wilkie’s book about Scruggs, and has enough news in it to suggest the book is going to be very interesting. What Minor is writing about is the moment when Scruggs was working toward a settlement with State Farm, and Jim Hood was not [...] Patsy Brumfield, who has apparently seen a pleading not yet visible on Pacer, reports that Zach Scruggs is about to file to set aside his guilty plea, taking a potshot a his first laywer, Tony Farese, and arguing that legal developments– presumably the Minor case in the Fifth Circuit (which held that there had to be [...] Jerry Mitchell at The Clarion Ledger is reporting that Judge Green wrote the Mississippi Supreme Court defending her sentencing poem in the Irby case. I’ll agree with Professor Steffey that the poem wasn’t out of line (not a literary gem, but nothing that should get the judge reversed): “Any judicial statements and-or remarks made by the court [...] Why do forms for demand notes specifically provide that one of the things the maker waives is a demand? This seems to me as mysterious as the question “which comes first, the chicken or the egg.” Should I make this a series [...] There’s a lot of mine-run stuff on the Court of Appeals decision lists this week– A workers comp case, an unemployment benefits case, and an odd little contracts case. In the contracts case, there’s an issue about attorneys fees and the way a notice of appeal and/or superseadeas divests a trial court of jurisdiction (on which there’s some [...] |
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