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Observation: the comments on Folo are worth reading.

Yesterday, Judge Lackey testified that he did not go to Atty Gen. Jim Hood with the bribery case because assistant district attorney Lon Stallings recommended against it. The implication was it was not safe because of the pressure Hood was under from Scruggs. Stallings told Lackey that Mike Moore had carried a warning to Hood that he should cooperate with Scruggs about the Katrina cases.

In the Daily Journal today, Patsy Brumfeld had a courtroom interview with Mike Moore, who accused Judge Lackey of fabrication (er, confusion) or lying, stating that Lon Stallings had sent him a text message denying Judge Lackey’s sworn testimony, and saying that Stallings had recommended Judge Lackey take the case to Jim Hood.

There was a fair amount of discussion about Stallings. I commented:

Lon is probably pretty torqued by the situation this puts him in between the head law enforcement officer in the state and one of the three judges he appears before, with both being from almost the same place Lon is from.

Oxford’s intrepid reporter Alyssa Shnugg aparently had a talk with Lon Stallings this afternoon, and it will be in the Oxford Eagle tomorrow. And this is what she has said:

Anyway, the long and short is, I talked to Lon. He said Lackey was truthful, although a few details were off and that he NEVER text Moore and doesn’t even know how to text message and was very hurt reading the reports this morning. He was very open and said friendships will be broken over all this.

I will have it done in the AM and will send it over as soon as it goes to press.

Everybody needs to watch the Eagle tomorrow for the next big scoop here…