In the audience at the guilty plea, white supremacist Richard Barrett was seated next to Byron de la Beckwith’s son, who was wearing a bright red blazer and a confederate lapel pin. Barrett did not recognize Beckwith, who knew Barrett and was toying with him, saying he knew who Barrett was. Most creapily, Beckwith asked Barrett if he remembered 1963.
Outside, when Tom Durkin was having a press conference, Beckwith stood elbow to elbow glaring at DeLaughter. This was at its strangest when Durkin was talking about his client making history in prosecuting Beckwith’s father; Durkin I think had no idea who the guy was. Beckwith allowed as to how “Justice is blind, but we are going to see justice now.
Below (left to right) are the backs of DeLaughter, Durkin, and (in the red) Beckwith. Below that, is Jerry Mitchell talking to Beckwith.
This is all so wild, DeLaughter was my judge in lawschool for Trial Practice class. That was our final, we had to try a case and he was our trial judge.
A class that Tommy Mayfield and Cynthia Speetjens taught to me at MC.
One of our keynote speakers during the course was (insert drumroll here) Ed Peters……..
What a vile, disgusting little person Beckwith appears to be. Hate to think we’ve still got his ilk around.
You may say what you will about BDB, but it was wretched violation of the Sixth Amendment speedy trial right.
I cannot believe DeLaughter is only getting 18 months to serve. Joey Langston, Tim Balducci, and Steve Patterson all got more time, and they cooperated with the FEDS. It is horrible when an attorney is engaged in such a vile act of bribery, but I, for one, think that a Judge is held to an even higher standard and should get more time than any of the others involved. At least they came clean and admitted what they had done. DeLaugher will never admit to what he did – he has only admitted to lying to the FBI, which is bad enough, but not nearly as bad as what he really did – throw a case.
Don’t you know that DeLaughter’s deposition, which will undoubtedly come from all of the civil litigation, will be an interesting read!
Here’s a little dot connecting. Richard Barrett was seen gladhanding at the Neshoba County Fair this morning. I suppose he was on his way up from whatever pit he normally inhabits to Aberdeen via Neshoba.
if nothing more happens to Peters it will be similar to beckwith’s accomplices being convicted or pleading guilty while beckwith walks.
Josh, seems like the ole gang were back together for a spell. I take it you were referring to moot court. Wasn’t moot courts created to help students for the real thing. Perhaps there should be a public moot court. May be at the library so everyone could become use to the battlegrounds. I think it unfair that citizens are walking into places to fight battles where a select few are comfortable enough to crook others because of all the advantages of surroundings as well family or friends.
Say someone becomes leader of the state. They get family members who are uneducated give them jobs. in turn they hire their friends. I’m not saying its always wrong. But let’s face it, I know folks in authoritative positions who can’t read or write. Remember the the truck drivers who simply paid to get their license without testing from MDOT. Any how what do you think the state would like after say two years? Now look around and tell me isn’t that exactly what we have.
There’s more going on here, we all know it. The sentencing was in line to the pro and con’s of actual events. Which are unknown publicly. It seems no one considers how all these events changed what was intended by law. Crooks run free the innocent are jailed. People who can’t even read have job’s the educated will never obtain and it goes on and on. It’s hard to image justice working properly in such an atmosphere.
Perhaps the money that belongs to others would have been put to better use than simply the self serving of a few to promote bragging rights. Makes one wonder of a Mississippi that could have been.
Jax. Beckwith didn’t walk. He died while incarcerated and in the hospital at UMC. Fruit didn’t fall far from the tree.
http://www.nationalist.org to read about Barrett. Be forewarned, it logs your IP address so you may get a visit by the Feds.
Barrett is scary person.
RR – i know. i was speaking hypothetically. my sentence structure was pretty poor though.
I understand and completely agree with Robert.
Time for another beer.
bigots dressed like clowns are just a small sideshow of this big-tent circus. thankfully, the circus has ended its run and is leaving town. will someone clean up after that running-free elephant, ed peters? it stinks!
NMC, I would love to hear your opinion as to whether this act was the last act in the Scruggs play. Doesn’t a classic play have three acts? We have seen Acts I and II. Can we expect an Act III, in your opinion? And, I am not referring to any continuation of (or tying up loose ends where a certain client of yours may or may not be involved) Acts I and II, but a brand new Act III, involving a new set of characters, with enough of the old ones to keep us interested.
Or, maybe Act I was Katrina, State Farm and Jim Hood, II was Judge Lackey, and III was Delaughter.
NMC. Did you have that yellow tie on again?
I wore the yellow tie, with malice aforethought.
NMC: I noticed the tie too. Eerie: Byron’s initials BDB. DeLaughter’s initials: BBD. Both are 666 to me.
Anybody know if there is any video of today online?
RazorRedux: The “conviction” of Beckwith was vacated by the federal-court, insofar as Beckwith died while his case was still on appeal. Beckwith, also, had a prior conviction vacated in Louisiana, in having a five-person-jury law declared unconstitutional. So, yes, he did “walk.” I agree with Josh Turner, as well. Beckwith’s case should have reached the U.S. Supreme Court and would have, had the man not died. It would have been tossed out there, as well, for violation of the Sixth Amendment’s right to a speedy trial.
Bubba: Beckwith didn’t walk. He got carried out. In a box. And I’m thanking everything that’s good and decent he did. His “speedy trial” be damned for what he did. But that’s just my view. You’re welcome to yours.
P.S. Tell Barrett and the rest of the dumbasses hello for me.
I got fired from a job when I was a youth because I couldn’t abide Barrett. I was in support at an ISP, and we constantly had to deal with the man, who was running his Web site in the mid-late ’90s. It always made me physically ill to talk to him. I won’t get into the details of how I got fired, but it involved messing with Barrett. I have no regrets.
good for you, Winthrop!
I had a funny dealing with Barrett, possibly about then. The weekend the Sovereignty Commission papers went public, I had an index of names referenced in it. At the time, the state archives had no plan to put any part of them online. I did a big website for the Mississippi ACLU about the papers, and included an index of all the names mentioned (which was a pain to put into HTML). One of my pages talked about the fact that Barrett had fought in court to have his sov. comm. file kept secret, that it was therefore still sealed. I then noted that he had put the file out in public on his own website, and linked to it. I noted that I was hesitant to link to his site, and sure we’d not get a link back from him. When he figured out what I’d done, he immediately pulled the file and took down the page I’d linked to. I then changed my site to note that Barrett was apparently afraid of links from the Mississippi ACLU.
The Louisiana “ticking timebomb” case alluded to by Bubba was also a “double jeopardy” case tried in State court after a Federal court had found Beckwith not guilty. Just how does the SCOTUS define “double jeopardy?”
In New Orleans, A.I Botnick and the ADL were able to use their influence to have Beckwith indicted, since, in the Louisiana courts, the prosecution did not have to prove “intent,” but that Beckwith had the paraphernalia for bomb making. Beckwith allegedly told the Judge,”You might as well charge me with rape…I have the paraphernalia!”
The framing of Beckwith by the ADL and the State of Louisiana is a known fact. Too bad that the late Big John Ingram was never put under oath on a witness stand and questioned about the FBI framing of Beckwith in the Ever’s case, too.
I’m sure all the folks here are familiar with the deposition taken by Judge Dillard back in 1963 from FBI agent William Stringer, alleging that the FBI conspired to frame Byron De La Beckwith and that illegal “false flag”activities were conducted by Big Jim Ingram, Roy K. Moore and Tommy Webb?
Why has Jerry Mitchell never conducted an “Angus MacKenzie-type investigation into the FBI’s COINTELPRO “false flag” activities in this State? The late Angus MacKenzie authored an expose–Secrets– of Al CIAda’s illegal domestic surveillance activities inside the US under auspicies of plan MHCHAOS.
Check out FBI Agent William Stringer’s deposition:
http://www.apfn.org/fbisetup.htm
Ooops!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fbisetup.htm