These links include the six February 4, 2008, posts of folo’s series on the case of J. Keith Shelton, as well as all followup posts to date:
Shelton: a new low for Mississippi?
February 4th, 2008
“[Y]ou get down to the area though where . . . . let’s see if I can bluff a plea out of this guy by indicting him. . . . . I’ve always had personal problems with it, to indict a case that I know deep in my heart that if I have to go ["]
Shelton, Part 1: the Bar tribunal’s findings
February 4th, 2008
Here you will find, “Englished " and as streamlined as I dare get it, a condensation of the findings of fact (64-page pdf) submitted to the Mississippi Supreme Court by the complaint tribunal in In Re: Petition for Reinstatement of J. Keith Shelton. The Court instructed this tribunal … Beverley M. Franklin (presiding), Katherine S. Kerby, and William C. Cunningham, judges ["]
Shelton, Part 2: The Bar tribunal’s findings
February 4th, 2008
Returning to the Shelton saga (64-page pdf), it’s time to meet our protagonist: Byram, MS, lawyer J. Keith Shelton . . .
Jennings Hires Mr. Shelton to Represent Him in Possible Claims Against Judge Patton Under 42 U.S.C. ยง1983 for Possible Violation of Jennings’ Civil Rights
In the late fall of 1996, attorney Keith Shelton met with ["]
Shelton, Part 3: The Bar tribunal’s findings
February 4th, 2008
This post covers two sections from the complaint tribunal’s findings of fact (64-page pdf), a short one and a long one, picking up our story on or about March 26, 1997. Keith Shelton has just returned from visiting Judge Houston Patton to report to his client, James Jennings, his bleak appraisal that the judge had ["]
Shelton, Part 4: The Bar tribunal’s findings
February 4th, 2008
In Part 4 of folo’s digest of the complaint tribunal’s findings (64-page pdf) in In Re: Petition for Reinstatement of J. Keith Shelton, we reach what I consider the most explosive piece of the story, (coincidentally?) the only one to brush against U.S. v. Scruggs and its cast of legal ne’er-do-wells eagles. As all-wrong as [ "]
Shelton, Part 5: The Bar tribunal’s conclusions and recommendation
February 4th, 2008
So what did the tribunal make of the story you’ve just read? In the section of its report (64-page pdf) titled CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, you’ll find such passages as:
The facts and circumstances of Mr. Shelton’s initial arrest and the events from that point until Judge Green dismissed the charges against him are disturbing at best [ "]
Shelton (and Jennings!): a folo-up
February 5th, 2008
UPDATED BELOW
For those of you who, having read all or parts of the Shelton series, are now struggling with (100% understandable) WTFs about how Shelton and Jennings ended up indicted for bribery/conspiracy if they got the money:
I refer you to the pdf of Robert Taylor’s testimony with exhibits beginning at page 54 of 84, including in order:
The indictment [ "]
Shelton: The mother of all WTFs
February 5th, 2008
Judging from the comment threads I’m seeing here and elsewhere, I need to talk more about how in the everlovin’ blue-eyed whirled Keith Shelton and James Jennings got indicted, even on an Ed Peters dare.
The indictment you can read for yourself at page 54 of its signer Robert Taylor’s testimony in deposition. Minus some of [ "]
Shelton: Must be my morning for hmmming . . .
February 11th, 2008
Um. Well. I must own that not in a million years would I have expected — or sought — a shout-out from the Alan Keyes camp, but well . . . uh . . . look here or here (same text cross-posted on two sites).
HMMM.
Shelton: the dysjustice continues
February 21st, 2008
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, ["]
Shelton: more cause for Hinds County chagrin
February 26th, 2008
Ahem. An anonymous reader has my thanks for a most interesting new piece of the Shelton saga that I understand was part of the record before the complaint tribunal (and now, of course, the Mississippi Supreme Court):
Here (two-page pdf) is a February 12, 1997, letter to James Jennings from the late Ruma Haque, then board [ "]
Keith Shelton stiffed again
February 28th, 2008
See for yourselves.
Twelve Thursdays ago the Mississippi Bar recommended J. Keith Shelton’s immediate reinstatement. But your Supreme Court just can’t seem to get its mind around that.
No word for Keith Shelton
March 6th, 2008
They did it again — or rather, didn’t. Week Thirteen of SCOM inaction on the MS Bar request for J. Keith Shelton’s immediate reinstatement has come and gone.
Keith Shelton still waits for justice
March 13th, 2008
Here.
Apparently “mmediate” means “something beyond fifteen weeks ” to the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Judge Hilburn and lawyer Shelton
March 26th, 2008
First: I am not making this up.
Here for your edification is the 25-page record of Hilburn v. McPhail, a real-estate dispute dating from March 1997, that took place in Hinds County Circuit Court. The parties were L. Breland Hilburn (as a private individual, not as circuit judge), represented by the very Bobby Sneed whose recommendations ["]
Okay, it’s Thursday, so the betting window is open
March 27th, 2008
Which do the Mississippi Supremes crank out first: Bobby DeLaughter’s suspension or Keith Shelton’s reinstatement?
(cue Jeopardy music)
The Supremes to DeLaughter and Shelton . . .
March 27th, 2008
Roaring silence.
Shelton reinstated; DeLaughter suspended
March 28th, 2008
Thanks to OleMissTrialLawyer for telling us there was a special handdown list today.
Decisions List.
Am I supposed to believe this is a coincidence?
March 28th, 2008
Yesterday, Lotus posted asking for bets as to which would be decided first, Keith Shelton’s effort to get reinstated or the Judicial Performance Commission’s motion to suspend Judge DeLaughter.
And today, we have an unusual Friday decision list with exactly two decisions … Shelton got reinstated and DeLaughter got suspended.
This is the biggest coincidence since [ "]
J. Keith Shelton, Esq. – UPDATED
March 28th, 2008
Keith, I’m OVER THE MOON!
Bless you, you’ve come through. Now come on home.
UPDATE: Thanks, My Thoughts, for this link to the (no kidding) Clarion-Ledger story!
Jimmie Gates now ” Jimmie Gates then
March 29th, 2008
Usually when I jeer the rag I’ve redubbed “the Ledger,” it’s Jerry Mitchell’s stuff making me hoot. Today it’s Jimmie Gates’s.
In his amplification of the bulletin on Keith Shelton’s reinstatement to the Mississippi Bar that ran yesterday, Gates writes, “[Judge Houston J.] Patton couldn’t be reached for comment Friday. “That’s a right funny statement if you ["]
