Scruggs scandal update: sweet potatoes by the acre
Some developments of the past ten days or so: * In major blow to defense, Judge Biggers denies motions to suppress wiretap evidence and evidence of similar bad acts [Rossmiller] * Balducci says he and...
View Article“Why Do Lawyers Mouth Clients’ Ridiculous Alibis?”
Letter to the editor, WSJ, Mar. 22 (via YallPolitics): It’s bad enough and sad enough to read the sorry story of the greed of tort-king “Dickie” Scruggs. The evidence and the transcripts was, of...
View Article“My client is being framed”, cont’d
Our weekend post questioning defense attorney John Keker’s assertions of the innocence of client Dickie Scruggs (“prosecutors have concocted a ‘manufactured crime’ in which his client had no part”)...
View ArticleImprisoned Lerach fires John Keker
Cal Law’s Legal Pad speculates on some of the reasons why the felonious class-actioneer may have parted ways with his high-profile criminal defense lawyer (via California Civil Justice Blog). Tags:...
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