Forecast gloomy for rainmaker Scruggs
With overcast skies outside, the prospects of legal superstar-turned-criminal-defendant Richard “Dickie” Scruggs did not appear too sunny either inside a federal courthouse Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi Senior Judge Neal Biggers heard motions tendered on behalf of Scruggs and his two remaining co-defendants, son Zach and law partner Sidney Backstrom, as their prosecution for allegedly bribing Lafayette County Circuit Judge Henry Lackey moved grimly and inexorably forward.
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