” Only someone truly infatuated with Beezlebub would spend the effort you are spending to Liquid Paper over his horns in all the pictures. “

The global settlement was announced 1/23/07

There is so much information to wade through, but did this settlement agreement generally remain in effect?

Hood says April of 07 he received new information from a Confidential Informant. Issued one supeona in August of ’07 in re to new matter.In my reading he doesn’t confirm or deny this new CI was developed through Scruggs, though says he doesn’t recall it (taps dances all around about this mysterious new CI) and seems to be conflating the new CI as a reason to have intervened with the letter in the Alabama matter having excepted the documents in the previous matter. He can’t say Scruggs was the conduit for the new CI but eludes it might be in an effort to have accepted the docs and intervened on Scruggs behalf.

2 Q. Did you issue any grand jury subpoenas on this new
3 investigation until you sued State Farm in civil court for
4 breach of contract?
5 A. There again, I don’t want to even get close to making a
6 mistake. Lord knows, I make plenty of them. But Courtney can
7 tell you if there was one issued. I don’t recall her issuing
8 one.
9 Q. Well, there’s only been one on this new investigation.
10 Isn’t that a fact?
11 A. Well, I’m not — you’re asking me subpoenas which could
12 have gone to other people, and I don’t know the answer to that
13 question.
14 Q. I’m only asking about subpoenas to State Farm.
15 A. Well, if you — okay. If you’re asking about subpoenas to
16 State Farm, as far as I know, this subpoena that y’all filed
17 this suit over is the one subpoena issued to State Farm.
18 Q. And how long after you sued State Farm in civil court for
19 breach of contract was it that you issued this grand jury
20 subpoena that we’re talking about here in this case?
21 A. I’m not sure of the date when the grand jury subpoena in
22 this case — I think y’all attached it in the complaint — went
23 out. I don’t issue grand jury subpoenas. That’s the court
24 that issues the subpoenas when the prosecutor requests them.
25 Q. Is your answer you don’t know?
But in this case we got those documents. And the federal
2 court was about to turn them over to State Farm and their
3 engineering firm. And I was trying to protect our confidential
4 informants, those women in that suit. This — our — as far as
5 the Alabama litigation goes, our grand jury was something like
6 mid January of ’07; and we were getting ready to interview in
7 the grand jury State Farm witnesses, State Farm employees. And
8 we were — we had feared that if the federal court turned them
9 over to State Farm, then they would know what questions we
10 would ask. So we were doing two things. We were — we were
11 concerned about them.
12 Now, there’s absolutely no way that I would ever try to in
13 any way circumvent an order of a federal district judge or a
14 state court or a justice court judge or any judge. If the
15 court’s ordered it, I can appeal it or whatever.
16 But this letter was written in an attempt to let a fellow
17 prosecutor, Ms. Martin, who is the U.S. Attorney over there,
18 realize that in matters of comity, if I’m in a prosecution —
19 Dunn Lampton has these documents as well. It hurts our case if
20 it’s given to the other side. And as a matter of comity, the
21 court should give some consideration to our people that are
22 providing us that information. I’m trying to protect my
23 witness.
24 So if I’ve got a witness that’s a witness in a dope case,
25 I’ve got a duty to try to protect them if somebody is trying to

Now, he says on the one hand HE did not want those document to get into State Farms hands so they would not know what questions HOOD Ag would ask – it’s been established SF had reconstructed the documents themselves (right?) – but on the other hand would NEVER and in no way try and circumvent a order of a federal judge – if a court ordered it he could appeal.

He didn’t so that, he circumvented a court order issued in Dec 06.

Then he wrote a letter to let a fellow prosecutor 6 months latter admitting to circumventing a court order saying giving those docs on the previous matter to the other side hurts HIS case and Scruggs is a CI on matters — insinuated CI on NEW matter.

Is that about right?

I find it inexplicable that an AG would not ensure taking custody of documents was in compliance with a court order in the first place (he was aware of the order) and not appealed the order like he acknowledges would be the proper avenue.

and then knowing they weren’t compliant and he didn’t properly appeal, write a letter admitting as much as an attempt to let Alabama know they didn’t want the docs to get into SF hands as it would hurt HIS case in a matter resolved as he was in a new matter.

if this long comment is tolerated I’ll speculate to Alice Waters.

I’m going through the docket in Renfroe v. the Rigsbys and I’ve hit a VERY strange event– the U.S. Attorney (that would be Lotus’s bud Alice Martin) requesting an ex parte conference with Acker right as the shit is hitting the fan.

Who put her up to that? What is the story? Can ANYONE find anything out there in all the internets that sheds some light on this? E.g. check with Rossmiller or the like? I’m still pulling pleadings and thar’s gold in them thar hills

Punished for following the rules! HUMMMMMM

Appears to be a clear message, report and risk your license!

From what I understand , that could include any professional license! Supremes rule!

Guess I’ll just keep decoratin’ (AKA interior designing) without a license!

They can kiss my grits!