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February 17, 2009

View of Bobby DeLaughter’s plight from “across the pond”

Bobby DeLaughter faces jail over patronage claim DeLaughter (pronounced dee-lawter) broke ranks with the white establishment when, as a young prosecutor in 1994, he went back to the unresolved killing of local civil rights leader Medgar Evers 30 years earlier, and jailed the notorious veteran of the Ku Klux Klan whose guilt had been known…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 17, 2009

GC – Corrupter should pay biggest price

Corrupter should pay biggest price Get away with it he might have, had not one upright North Mississippi circuit judge, Henry Lackey, blown the whistle on the perpetrators. The sting operation and FBI investigation that ensued have so far resulted in guilty pleas from Scruggs, four other attorneys and a hanger-on; a forfeiture of a…