Comments on: NMC: News accounts of a big day for the Scruggs cases

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:07:30 +0000

Simpler explanation. Balducci makes his overturn. Judge Lackey runs into Greenlee or another Ass’t U. S. Atty he knows (in small town of Oxford) say you want believe what Tim Balducci said to me!! Well lets see what he meant get him back in and tell him your a poor country judge who needs help and see if he bites, then we will know what he meant. And you know the rest of the story. Simple explanation.

By: Its All Good

Its All Good — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:47:44 +0000

been told Lackey actually contacted the Feds when he got the job offer, offended that they were trying to set him up as part of sting op. Then the fun began….

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:31:37 +0000

Heh, Jane — I don’t guess we’ll put “self-awareness” down as one of Timothy’s strong suits, hey?

By: SoMissMiss

SoMissMiss — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:07:39 +0000

Regarding the Honorable Henry Lackey, could it be a possible scenario that he had heard rumors of this type of behavior but had never actually encountered it? Perhaps he did the honorable thing by reporting the overture and saving TB from further improprieties . . . just a thought.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:59:26 +0000

Good points, msman. I’m wracking my brain to think of anything Trent Lott might be happy about right now. I got nuthin’.

By: msman

msman — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:54:17 +0000

CON – Yes it would have been best for him to do, and yes it might be hard to prove a bribe based on political influence. However, if you piece together the two men who were the conduits between lawyer and judge – both good friends of each, a phone call from the political power in charge of the judgeship (influence), and then take a look back at the rulings of the judge combined with the events all taking place in a small window around the time of the Special Master’s ruling then the outlook is good that Wilson will at least get himself a new trial and even possibly a new federal trial. That has a few MS & LA lawyers involved in the tabaccoo trust a little worried. My advice – wait until Ed Peterrs is “found” and his information to the gov’t comes out and some hands are going to be forced. You may not have an envelope and cash but you’ll have a heap of validated evidence, and possibly a stronger case than the current one. Ironically, Lott and DeLaughter are somewhat butting heads right now concerning the elections – not Lott directly but I think we can all surmise he is not too happy with elections in March/April.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:35:30 +0000

Morning, y’all.

CONFOUNDED, your question reminds me of something I used to say to engineering students in my tech-writing course: “In the end, the ethical way is the only efficient way.”

Back then I used Morton ThioKol’s performance in the Challenger disaster as a recent for-instance. Now legal-ethics professors can deploy these mopes as vivid examples of the principle for a long time to come.

By: observer

observer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:32:50 +0000

You know that about right now, DeLaughter is wishing he had done what Lackey did.

By: CONFOUNDED

CONFOUNDED — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:25:16 +0000

wouldn’t it have solved alot of delaughter’s problems if when he was told he could get a federal judgeship in exchange for a ruling favorable to scruggs, he went straight to the feds like lackey did?

By: iwannaknow

iwannaknow — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:02:11 +0000

NMC is right. Judge Lackey did the right thing and contacted the Feds, The Feds correctly realized something like a job offer at a f uture point is too ambiguous and leaves too much room for doubt. If there is going to be an airtight case, there had to be something concrete. Hard to argue with cash passed and captured on video.