Comments on: Go read Kingfish (if you can)!

By: tiredlwyr

tiredlwyr — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:35:55 +0000

Over the years I have known a pullman car full of lawyers who have worked in the Hinds County DA’s office for a period of time. To a man, or woman as the case may be, I have always heard them tell that Peters philosophy was that they should never indict on a case that they could not win at a jury trial and that they did not get paid to lose cases.

I have never heard a single former assistant even use the term “indict on a dare” until RHT’s remarks showed up here.

While I certainly have no knowledge of the goings on in the DA’s office regarding the Shelton fiasco, I do tend to question RHT’s version. Perhaps it is totally accurate, but then again, perhaps he is attempting to shift the spotlight away from himself at a much later date. As I posted earlier, it is after all his signature that is on the bottom of the indictment.

By: fishwater

fishwater — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:32:01 +0000

Mr. Taylor’s statement makes it sound like the Shelton case was not the first “indict on dare” rodeo. Was Taylor one of Peter’s “people” as he puts it. How often is “occasionally”?

"[Y]ou get down to the area of though where . . . . the prosecutor says let’s see if I can bluff a plea out of this guy by indicting him. . . . . I’ve always had personal problems with it, to indict a case that I know deep in my heart if I have to go to trial I can’t win it. That was okay with Peters, he was willing to have his people indict on a dare. "

By: tiredlwyr

tiredlwyr — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:36:03 +0000

fishwater- 5:45

I certainly do not wish to challenge RHT’s version of the facts nor to challenge his veracity. After checking my recollection of how the Hinds DA’s office functioned in this time period with some of my colleagues with better memories than I, it does seem inconceivable that he would lack knowledge of how the case was presented to the Grand Jury or of who presented it since he was the assistant who handled all matters before the Grand Jury and signed the indictment. Perhaps his memory, like mine sometimes, has not improved with age. On the other hand he could be doing a little CYA as you first raised. He did experience a change of bosses during all of this.

By: justheardit

justheardit — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:07:54 +0000

Heard from a very reliable source that the folks at State Farm informed the “2 ladies” that all State Farm laptops have a GPS device and that the first time the “2 ladies” met with Scruggs and others was at the Trent Lott/Richard Scruggs hunting camp. How about them apples!

By: nowdoucit

nowdoucit — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:31:39 +0000

…and I thank all of you folks who deliver great information for your wit – can’t count all the lol moments I’ve had trying to catch up on the afternoon’s converation.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:58:18 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation, tired. Haven’t seen you around for a few days, glad you’re back.

By: tiredlwyr

tiredlwyr — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:53:08 +0000

somslawyer- 4:27

The Robert Taylor of Shelton fame is one and the same as the one who was counsel for Peters. For what its worth.

By: fishwater

fishwater — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:45:04 +0000

Could RT be on doing a little CYA!

By: iratetoday

iratetoday — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:42:21 +0000

Times like this I wish we did not have a mandatory Bar.

By: Kingfish

Kingfish — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:36:56 +0000

What is the significance of Robert Taylor? Some of us are still learning all the players.