The state bar has responded to the Scruggs motion to dismiss the bar complaint seeking Dickie Scruggs’s disbarment, both with a response and a motion to suspend Scruggs’s license until a formal order is entered on his plea. The response states:
Mr Scruggs should not be allowed to continue to practice law while awaiting entry of a final judgment, having already demonstrated unprofessional and unethical conduct evincing unfitness for the practice of law by virtue of having entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of conspiracy to corrupt a state circuit court judge.
And guess which case the state bar cites for the proposition that a certified copy of the judgment or order accepting the plea is not needed for automatic disbarment? The answer makes me think that I’ve misread Jim’s “circles within circles” comment. He’s talking about self-reference!
The case they cite is of course Miss. Bar v. Keith Shelton. (And the picture is an ouroboros, a mythical beast that would eat its own tail and is the symbol of self reference). Are all the stories Folo follows eventually all going to circle back on each other?
Here’s the State Bar response to Scruggs motion to dismiss and State Bar motion to suspend Scruggs’s license.
Bwaaahaaahaaaaaaa.
Consarn you, NMC, you gots to PROOFREAD — y’had the whole blog leaning right, boy!
Muttermuttermutter . . .
:-p
I didn’t even notice until my neck started to hurt. heehee
Perhaps the State Bar’s response to Scruggs’ motion to dismiss should be faxed to Chancellor Robert Khayat with certain portions underlined for Khayat’s attention.
As someone pointed out over at YallPolitics, Khayat has blinders on in this matter which take the form of dollar bills.
Glad to see the MS Bar’s prompt response. I’d like to see Dickie’s name stricken from the rolls this Thursday. Curious to see how long the Supremes will take on this one.
Testing
Looks like you gotter er dun, gir friendddd!!
I’m lost as to lotus 1, NMC 2 and Stormy 3.
Sounds like Kilgore is a little miffed, but his filings weren’t particularly well written. Why didn’t he just attach the transcript of the hearing from federal court where Biggers clearly said he accepted his plea?
Technical difficulties, DN 8. NMC miscoded that bit of the headline and put the whole place into italics for a little bit there.
And what Stormy’s talking about later is having been rescued from the stupid spam filter — the thang’s gone all grabby on us all of a sudden.
OKAAAAYYYY….
Why does Kilgore refer to the attorneys by name in the Response rather than Scruggs? He says Mr. Martz, for example, filed a Motion…. I’ve never seen this done before.
irate 10 / Agreed. To be honest, didn’t it look like Kilgore spent about 10 minutes total on the documents?
irate, that is weird.
If I had done the motion, I’d have attached the plea transcript. I’m assuming that Kilgore is not reading Folo.
NMC 12 / I agree. Would you have even filed that motion to indefinitely suspend him?
Not only that, but by summary judgment, this Court finds Defendant Kilgore guilty of flingin’ apostrophes where they don’t belong, to wit:
Off wid his quill!
I don’t believe he has ever done this before, maybe thats his problem, after all it has been a rarity in Mississippi up to now.
who cares about typos, righteous indignation becomes him and hopefully it will be contagious for the Court. He is reminding the Court what Martz did to Shelton by citing Shelton and letting them know that if they do not disbar Scruggs they can suspend him anyway right away.
Fixed it, Jane. Now let’s see if he sticks his tongue out at you too. Poor guy’s now officially outnumbered by prisses.
(We might be after you next, jsh, but-for you make such a snazzy point.)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG
Perhaps I should quit posting.
maybe. The problem I’ve got is posting-while-working. I wanted to get the Scruggs stuff up fast and missed a close-italic tag (which I don’t count as a typo) and the D in GoDzilla (which I do).
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH. I was proofreading a motion at the same time and think it’s probably better to use my high level proofing skills there and my high level snarking skills here.
think it’s probably better to use my high level proofing skills there and my high level snarking skills here.
…may it please the horrible court.
Jane, if you get fully committed here we’ll do fine.
I don’t know Jane, I think you can deal.