Feds want to block DeLaughter from saying his rulings were legal
Mississippi Judge Bobby DeLaughter, facing federal corruption charges, has said his rulings followed the letter of the law. Federal prosecutors don’t want a jury to hear that when his trial begins in August.
He is accused of giving an unfair advantage to once-powerful attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs in a lawsuit between Scruggs and another attorney over millions of dollars in legal fees from asbestos litigation.
Prosecutors asked a judge in a pretrial motion filed Monday to block DeLaughter from giving any testimony that his rulings followed the law, claiming it would take weeks during the trial.
“Because it would ‘convey no useful information,’ the government respectfully suggests that such evidence would be both irrelevant and immaterial and should therefore be excluded,” the motion said.
MSN
6/24/9
Magnolia Tribune
