Judicial Bribery Scandal « NMissCommentor

Scruggs to Judge Davidson: Decide my petition, because I could be getting out soon.

Dickie Scruggs has filed a motion in Scruggs II asking the court to go ahead and decide the case. Writing with uncharacteristic brevity, his lawyers note that his release date on the five year sentence in Scruggs I would be in November of this year and that he’d be eligible for half-way house or [...]

What could this possibly be?

After lunch, these two entries hit the docket in Scruggs I about five minutes apart:

05/21/2012 408 MOTION for Leave to File Pleading Under Seal by Steven A. Patterson. (llw) 05/21/2012 409 ORDER denying 408 Motion for Leave to File Pleading Under Seal as to Steven A. Patterson (5). Signed by Neal B. Biggers on [...]

Scruggs and the Government file their briefs….

The court asked for proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. Yesterday, the Government filed an eight page brief, and the Scruggs side filed a forty pages proposed findings. There’s a “don’t think about the elephant” quality to the Scruggs proposed findings. The elephant is the testimony from Peters, Paterson, Langston, and Balducci [...]

Marking time during the rain delay, the Ole Miss and Southern baseball squads did some skits and then danced.

Apparently college baseball rain delays have it all over professional ones, entertainment-wise. It’s been going on at least a couple of years, and variations have included piggy-back jousting. Yes, really: Jousting. A New York Times sports blogger writing about the jousting noted: ”Really, if my kid gets injured doing this, he is [...]

Judge Davidson orders that the DeLaughter proffer will be under seal

As I noted, when the hearing adjourned, an open issue was a proffer of what Bobby DeLaughter’s testimony would have been if he’d been made to testify. In order to appeal the judge’s decision to not grant immunity to DeLaughter, the Scruggs side have to show what they would have proved had Delaughter been [...]

A summary of the posts about the Scruggs II hearing last week

I’ve made a number of posts about last weeks hearing in Scruggs II, involving Dick Scruggs’s effort to set aside his guilty plea for corruptly influencing Bobby DeLaughter. The issue in the hearing was whether Scruggs could prove that he was innocent of the charge of bribing the judge.

One major post was a summary [...]

12-21-07: DeLaughter comes clean(er) with the FBI

You might want to read this chronology before reading this post. You also probably should read about DeLaughter’s first FBI interview.

DeLaughter’s second FBI interview memo closes with passages that makes me wonder, again, why this was placed in evidence by the Scruggs team:

At the time, DELAUGHTER did not think that PETERS’ and LANGSTON’s help [...]

12-10-07: Bobby DeLaughter misleads the FBI but then thinks better of it

You might want to read this chronology before reading this post.

Two FBI interview memos from Bobby DeLaughter were placed in evidence in the hearing. With DeLaughter not testifying, it is not clear to me the evidentiary import of these documents. Whatever that may be, there are some statements in the second one that [...]

12-11-07: Ed Peters doesn’t come clean with the FBI

You might want to read this chronology before reading this post.

On December 11, the day after the FBI had raided Langston’s law office and visited Bobby DeLaughter, they dropped by Ed Paters’s office for a visit. He didn’t have a lawyer, but decided to talk anyway.

In his interview, Peters “stated he represented STEVE PATTERSON [...]

Scruggs I and II erupt: Some notes on the November 2007-January 2008

During the trial this week, three FBI interview memos surfaced for the first time: 2 interviews with Bobby DeLaughter and an interview with Ed Peters. All of them occurred in mid-December of 2007. To fully appreciate the context of these interviews, a timeline of events in late November of 2007 through early January of [...]

Anderson wrote on 8:53 am, May 22, 2012 about Scruggs to Judge Davidson: Decide my petition, because I could be getting out soon.
Maybe the district court should continue to sit on it & dare them to seek mandamus. ... I've nothing against quotations, god knows, but their Barclay quote seems to suggest the *court* could as we ..

MikeH wrote on 11:04 pm, May 21, 2012 about RANT about att.net (“Login to server outbound.att.net failed”)
Cableone "migrated" about a year ago and I never have regained ability to send from my Mac and cannot send or receive from two accounts on any CPU. It took an hour plus to get one account working. I c ..

WantedToBeALawyer wrote on 10:48 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
Lacking an open thread I am forced to post this very cool Scale of the Universe link here. ..

DeltaLawMama wrote on 9:53 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
DLM <3's Josh Whedon, but won't leave DLS to stalk him. ..

Anderson wrote on 9:01 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
Shoot, DLM, *I* wouldn't mind growing up to be Black Widow. That was how my summer *started*. (ScarJo is so good in that ... beautifully understates the whole character, her tone of voice, her facial ..

DeltaLawMama wrote on 8:50 pm, May 21, 2012 about “You’ve got a cellphone. Take a picture with a hole between his eyes.” Sounds like probable cause to me.
When I grow up I want to be Black Widow, not TO Ellen Ripley. ..

YourLiesHaveLies wrote on 8:40 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Those countries do need money. That's probably why they allow a convicted felon in. ..

Ben wrote on 8:27 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Sure makes me proud to be an Ole Miss grad. We know how to pick 'em. ..

John wrote on 5:38 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
I sure am glad probation isn't standing in the way of a European vacation. I'm also glad he has the money to afford it. What's he doing now for employment? ..

Anderson wrote on 5:27 pm, May 21, 2012 about Some notes on the possible defenses suggested at Dr. Smith’s preliminary hearing
It's just amusing to me how Hammett slipped in a word that got by both his editors AND the Hollywood censors, and as a result has been "naturalized" with a very different meaning. In effect, Hammett n ..

Ben wrote on 5:19 pm, May 21, 2012 about Some notes on the possible defenses suggested at Dr. Smith’s preliminary hearing
Anderson: I confess to having not read The Maltese Falcon. I can't say with any confidence where I first heard "gunsel" ... lost in the foggy remnants of an old mind, such as it is. Many thanks. ..

Dragoman wrote on 5:00 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Redeemed from Coventry already? And for an alumni trip to Europe? Well, he'll be a fine one to have along. I wonder he's not shunned by the alumni office and everyone else at the University. My God! ..

pr1954 wrote on 4:56 pm, May 21, 2012 about Some notes on the possible defenses suggested at Dr. Smith’s preliminary hearing
AFOTL, just go ahead and say what you mean..."it was all that damn Conway's fault. just grandstanding" ..

Anderson wrote on 4:25 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
Maybe Patterson should have to pay to take the parole officer on the trip with him. Those guys work pretty hard, they need a break now & then. ..

somslawyer wrote on 4:13 pm, May 21, 2012 about What could this possibly be?
At least that's how I've always understood it to be, Anderson. Apparently, I've been under the misapprehension that one should suffer at least *some* penalty for being caught in the commission of a se ..

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