Power, greed, and hubris : judicial bribery in Mississippi /

"From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former state aud...

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Main Author: Crockett, James R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Did Attorney Paul Minor Seek Unfair Advantages by Bribery?
  • Paul Minor, Wes Teel, and John Whitfield : The Second Trial
  • The Diazes' Income Tax Follies
  • The Appeals of Minor, Teel, and Whitfield
  • The Enigma That Is Richard F. "Dickie" Scruggs
  • The Undoing of Dickie Scruggs
  • Jones v. Scruggs and the Rise and Fall of the Scruggs Katrina Group
  • The Odd Couple : Tim Balducci and Steve Patterson
  • Who Is Judge Henry Lackey?
  • Sentencing of the Scruggs I Defendants
  • Joey Langston Violates His Own Rule
  • The Bobby DeLaughter Tragedy
  • Bobby DeLaughter Lied
  • The Scruggs-Luckey-Wilson Legal Entanglement : Will This Thing Ever End?
  • Presley L. "P. L." Blake and Edward J. Peters : The Teflon Men
  • Zach and Dickie Scruggs's Appeals.