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The photo above, by Eli Williams for the Oxford Enterprise, of Hal Neilson leaving his arraignment.
Paul Quinn has a story about the Hal Neilson arraignment in yesterday’s Oxford Enterprise and the reports about whether or not he was a whistleblower.  Paul has talked to a lot of different camps– defense lawyers from the Scruggs case, [...]

Last week, the deadline arrived for rehearing petitions in the Paul Minor case.  There had been two extensions of the deadline, one agreed by all parties that bumped it past the first of the year, and a second because of the blizzard in Washington– the Solicitor General had to pass on any en banc petitions, [...]

Judge Hittner just entered an order setting the U.S. v. $425,000 case– the one whether the government or Wilson gets to keep the money Ed Peters turned over from his ill-gotten fee paid by Scruggs for influencing Judge DeLaughter– for a bench trial on March 22nd.  The order (oddly enough) doesn’t say where, but the [...]

Recall that in December of 2008, the government filed an action about the money Ed Peters had turned over to them (they said it was what was left of his million dollar fee in Wilson v. Scruggs).  Wilson’s lawyers jumped into the case, claiming that the money should rightfully be his.  The government filed a [...]

There was a flurry of stories in the last two days over Bobby DeLaughter reporting to prison.  This morning, the Clarion Ledger ran a story that Charles Evers is seeking a pardon for DeLaughter; near that a top is a quote that isn’t calculated to help the cause:
“All he (DeLaughter) did was lie,” said Evers, [...]

Saturday there was an article about the sealing of the file in Eaton v. Frisby, which is one of the two cases where Ed Peters was apparently secretly hired (by plaintiff Eaton Corp. and/or its lawyers) to influence Judge DeLaughter (the other being Wilson v. Scruggs).  There’s an interesting “watch this space” heads up from [...]

Jerry Mitchell wrote Sunday about honest services fraud cases.  Before getting to that, there’s a news bit that repeats an interesting bit from a prior story about the Paul Minor proseuction.  Previously, I’d posted about the most interesting unexplained bit in a story about the Minor case.  He repeats it here:
U.S. Attorney Don Burkhalter of [...]

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As I’ve repeatedly said, I think the defendants in U.S. v. Minor won a large victory before the Fifth Circuit.  And, to reach the dispositive issue, the Fifth Circuit had to rule that it would be an injustice to not decide the issue under its plain error rules.
But for almost all laymen and even some [...]

This sentence caught my eye:
Contacted for comment, U.S. Attorney Don Burkhalter said his office has been recused from the case and he couldn’t comment.
As I understood it, Dunn Lampton recused himself from the case, but the S.D. Miss. office continued to prosecute.  When did the whole office get recused? Why? Is something occurring offstage about [...]