As MSlawyer noticed, the Google Scruggs News runneth over this morning, so here’s a fresh selection, annotated:
Transcript excerpts
Biloxi Sun Herald
Cherry-picks some juicy exchanges among the playahs.
SID SALTER: Hood fails to quell criticism of donations
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Column whose bottom line is “… admitted felons shouldn’t be able to escape state charges of trying to bribe a judge because they’re friends with or donors to the state’s attorney general.”
Scruggs judicial bribery case in court
WREG
A Memphis teevy station rouses itself to four sentences. Why they bothered, I can’t say.
Scruggs wiretap evidence presented
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Patsy’s take (nothing new that my glance revealed).
Prosecutors’ timeline in Scruggs case
Biloxi Sun Herald
From “March 15-28″ to “Today.”
Scruggs tape reveals talks
SunHerald.com
Anita Lee on the Nov. 1 and Nov. 13 tapes.
Government releases Scruggs’ taped conversations | with transcripts
Biloxi Sun Herald
Another Anita Lee story on the Nov. 1 meeting, with links to the transcripts.
AG: Why not remove ‘appearance of conflict?’
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Editorial whose bottom line is “Hood isn’t powerless, after all. It’s totally in his hands how the state proceeds.”
Tapes: Judge’s order edited
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Jerry Mitchell’s run at it, meatier than most of these others.
WLBT did a segment at 10 last nite. Needless to say Marsha was waaaaaaayyyyyy behind the curve. And as far as the CL goes, at least they seem to be waking up a bit, although I surely wouldn’t call Jerry’s contribution to be “award winning” so far.
Poor Jerry– commenters whacking him upside the head with folo links, etc.
Sure would like to be with Alyssa right now………..
Me too, TL, but NMC is, so we’ll get it fresh, here directly. Oboyoboyoboy.
Does Folo have eyes and ears on Jackson Ave for today’s hearing?
“Liveblogging on tape-delay,” I guess we can call what NMC’s up to this morning.
Why d’ya think I arranged for the tape-delay this time, Jane? Can’t have that kind of untowardness repeating itself ’round heah.
Hood was done some marvelous things such as going after Killen, etc. But at this point he’s so close to the stink that he’s turning into a skunk. The more he tries to answer his critics the more unpolished and unprofessional he appears. He’s acting like a scared rabbit darting every which way until BAM…he gets run over.
You’re not sending BelleSouth?
Right. Can’t be too keerful. He is, after all, still a lawyer.
(laughs and runs away)
Dang if she didn’t resign from the blog, DelNat. Our hearts broke.
(twiddles thumb-petals)
I may have to resort to a Sebass-stories thread to amuse us while we wait. Reckon we’d get us up a quorum for that before long?
DJournal reporting Balducci took stand this morning…Soon now
Clarion Ledger actually has a decent article.
I don’t know Sebass, so I suggest…. TWISTER!
Go read CL stuff from Jerry Mitchell about Balducci’s testimony this am…
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080220/NEWS/802200365&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
Before we get NMC’S update it appears to me Balducci had a higher IQ of either Scruggs/Langston but has an insecurity problem with his peers..Lets see if after he was caught there was not a stone unturned. (Pride in his work).
Not good for Zach…
Not good for Zach at all.
It seems like a father would want to protect his son from this sort of thing, and would be deeply ashamed if the son found out. That doesn’t appear to be the case here. I would like to have been a fly on the wall when Scruggs pere had a little sitdown with Scruggs fils and explained the facts of life to him.
Dickie Scruggs as grammar and punctuation scold is interesting too.
“Dickie Scruggs as grammar and punctuation scold is interesting too.”
Yeah, dang it, them’s MY lines he’s stealing!