A couple of updates on the Wendell Blount case. The Daily Journal reports that David Hill of Oxford is going to be Blount’s lawyer in the case. Patsy Brumfield’s story reports some of Blount’s history:
Blount has been in and out of the legal system over the years. Federal court records show he was a witness in a fraud and murder-for-hire case in the late 1980s.
Blount was released from a federal prison Nov. 26, 2008, after serving time on a drug charge. In 2006, he was charged in Texas and convicted with aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute 23 kilograms of marijuana, court records show.
In 1997, he was indicted but never convicted for accessory after the fact to murder in Calhoun County. He later worked as an informant for U.S. Customs Enforcement in a money laundering case.
Blount was still on probation from the Texas arrest at the time of Hageman’s death, according to court records.
Also, a civil suit against Blount has been filed in the Circuit Court of Chickasaw County on behalf of the family of the victim, Esther Hageman, suing Blount and Blount Motors, a car dealership that owned the vehicle Blount was driving. Esther Hegeman was a journalist from the Netherlands, bicycling on the Natchez Trace, when Blount ran over her. The plaintiffs lawyers are Phillip Thomas, who writes the Mississippi Litigation Review blog, and John Giddens, both of Jackson. Here’s a copy of the complaint in the civil suit.
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