Well, here we are at Thursday afternoon again, and for the tenth week in a row since the Mississippi Supreme Court received from the state Bar the full-throated recommendation that J. Keith Shelton be reinstated immediately to the practice of law — at 1:30 PM when the week’s worth of decisions were announced, they got nuttin’.
True, Chief Justice Smith has been in the hospital this week, but that didn’t stop the Court’s flow of opinions. [You have to wait a few seconds after the page appears for the list to populate (it's on the right side), but eventually the most recent "hand-down list" (today's, 2/21/08) appears. When it does, click on "Submit. "] Twenty of them came down today.
I wonder how long those 40 parties waited for justice — no way for us to know without more research than we’d be wise to spend multiple unbillable hours on. But I’ll tell you what:
What’s continuing to happen to Keith Shelton I no longer call mere “injustice.” Now I call it “dysjustice” — as in dysfunction. Your Bar is still being deprived of a good colleague and your state of a good lawyer.
How do y’all feel, and what might you be willing to say — to whom — about that?
Has anyone spoken with the Bar pertaining to this matter? I would love for Adam Kilgore to explain why it took him four months to respond to the Tribunal’s finding.
Furthermore, it is very fishy that the Supremes continue to sit on this. And unless it has been added today, a search on the MSSC’s docket does not pull up this case! I hate to be paranoid but from what we all have witnessed with this case we all have the right to be.
letter wring campaign. Anyone???
confounded, This morning I read where Judicial Performance was referred to as a Mississippi Watch Dog group, they will probably take this on for us Mississippian’s..Doncha know.
Yep, the same Commision whose investigator lied about investigating!
dear mag: good idea but mr. shelton would probably like to see something done this century since he got no results last century and the jpc has its hands absolutely full already.
Has anybody ever heard anything about this on Paul Gallo’s radio show? This seems like something he would be all over… in a helpful kind of way (hint.. hint.. you reading paul?)
Nope, Paul has not reported on this as far as I know.
I listen to Gallo on the way to work (betw. 6:45 & 7:00) — just in time to hear Paul & Perez reading the Scruggs transcripts. It is hilarious. I wish he would cover the Shelton thing.
Guess you could give him a call. I would but I’m usually traveling at that time through a bad cell area.