Comments on: Judge Mills clarifies his order (by NMC)

By: observer

observer — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:01:06 +0000

Unless Scruggs, or one of the other attorneys, can reel Keker in before they get in front of a jury, this trial is going to be ugly for him.

What plays well in Hollywood, doesn’t necessarily play the same way in Holly Springs.

By: iratetoday

iratetoday — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:48:59 +0000

Well he certainly has played that role to a tee.

By: silas

silas — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:46:39 +0000

There is certainly a lot more going on in the background, but from what I can see Keker’s only contribution has been to act as a well-paid smartass.

By: UMATTY

UMATTY — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:39:34 +0000

There are too many good lawyers in Mississippi who know how to act for Scruggs to fool with Mr. Keker, who apparently thinks he is God’s gift to the legal profession. His condescending attitude and tone towards Mr. Robinson (in the e-mails) was reprehensible. If he acts like that in front of the jury it will be held against him. I would be surprised if Mr. Keker doesn’t make a departure soon. He has already lasted longer than most of Scruggs’ attorneys.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:17:48 +0000

George Phillips was US Attorney when Dale was indicted. The case fell apart during the transition to Brad Pigott. Pigott was the one to pull the plug.

By: dd511dd

dd511dd — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:48:18 +0000

Thanks for checking on me Stormy – I’m still around. Just didn’t want to say too much my first day in the neighborhood.

And nmiss if I thought the Scruggs topic boring I wouldn’t be here . . . it’s just the State Farm/Scruggs depo battle that is less than exciting to me. As many others will attest, these depo battles occur often in high stakes cases (and in $50k car wreck cases) and they are no more interesting in the other cases than in this one.

But enough. I’ll sit back and enjoy this excellent blog.

By: a friend of the law

a friend of the law — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:36:21 +0000

Looks like the left coast lawyers just found out we don’t play games in federal court down heah in MS. Mills, ain’t Judge Ito after all. LOL.

Welcome to MS boys. Gamesmanship, ignoring judicial orders, reckless slander of prosecution witnesses like Judge Lackey, and cutesy quips like ” If it don’t fit, you must aquit”, aint gonna cut it here dudes. Like…. you may have to actually use….like…. legal arguments and stuff….really.

By: nmisscommenter

nmisscommenter — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:58:35 +0000

My sources on the square in Oxford say:

so– sometime between about 8:15 CST and 8:45 CST, whatever was going on in the Scruggs firm quit happening.

Who knows whether it took the Butler, Snow folks about 8 hours to finish with Scruggs, but it seems that way from outside.

By: duckweedpond

duckweedpond — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:40:44 +0000

nomiss, i think the us attorney for the southern district then was George Phillips.

i left to go to the grocery store yesterday before the superbowl, watched the game and just this afternoon come back to all this. This Place is Amazing. But I’ll never find the thread I was on when I left!

By: nmisscommenter

nmisscommenter — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:57:17 +0000

nomiss has this pretty much cold in my opinion.