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Patsy Brumfield has a story about Hal Neilson’s lawsuit against Jim Greenlee. There are a couple of tip-offs that the story is strictly from Neilson’s side. One is that the only person quoted is his lawyer, Christi McCoy (I’ll note that Greenlee refused to comment). A second is this description of the libel lawsuit against [...]  This is a truly odd one. Folks will recall that Hal Neilson, head of the local FBI office, was prosecuted for undisclosed self-dealing relating to his involvement in selecting a landlord for the local FBI office; he selected a property for the FBI lease in which he owned a significant interest. Somewhere along the [...] I noted in my last post about Judge Davidson’s rulings that Judge Davidson’s just released opinion essentially told Dickie Scruggs that he was going to get a hearing but he wasn’t going to win. My heading here describes that as “fair warning.” How, you might ask, is it fair if there hasn’t been a [...] I think the upshot of Judge Davidson’s ruling today on Dickie Scruggs’s petition to set aside his guilty plea in Scruggs II is pretty simple: ”Well, you’re going to lose, but I’ll give you a hearing first.” And that seems a reasonable response. The opinion is primarily a response to Scruggs’s motion for judgment [...] Judge Davidson has ruled on Dickie Scruggs’s motion for a judgment on the pleadings, in which Scruggs asserted his conduct with regard to Judge DeLaughter was protected by the First Amendment. He also rules that there will be an evidentiary hearing about Scruggs’s alleged innocence. In doing so, Judge Davidson tosses a nice dart at [...] Folks interested in the arcana of the Scruggs cases and Zach Scruggs’s plea in specific might find this post on the Concurring Opinions blog interesting. It’s about misprision of a felony, which the author correctly notes is a “pleading crime.” He says its like the algae of the federal criminal code, “[b]ut, like algae, [...] Alan Lange has posted Zach Scruggs’s Brief of Appellant in the Fifth Circuit on YallPolitics. I’ve skimmed a large part but not yet given it a careful read. He devotes the vast majority of its length on Skilling and actual innocence (which certainly is a wise use of pages) but keeps a few pages [...] Dickie Scruggs filed a motion to clarify the record, insinuating that the Government had somehow made misleading statements about whether there was a quid pro quo in Scruggs II (the case involving Judge DeLaughter, Ed Peters, the federal bench opportunity and several million dollars paid to Peters to secretly work Judge DeLaughter). My reading [...] Dickie Scruggs’s lawyers filed a motion for a judgment on the pleadings, saying that the scheme to illegally influence Judge DeLaughter was protected by the First Amendment. I wrote about the motion here. The Government responds with about the same level of ridicule that Anderson used in commenting on the motion: For the petitioner [...] Dickie Scruggs has filed a motion for a judgment on the pleadings. Because it is so miscellaneous, this post will, also, be a bit that way. But it does begin to tie together unexpectedly diverse strands that have come up since I began blogging about the Scruggs cases. Do folks remember Ashton O’Dwyer? He’s [...] |
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