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February 26, 2008

BRUMFIELD – Scruggs Case – Today’s bribery rulings crucial

Scruggs Case – Today’s bribery rulings crucial Key to the Scruggs-Backstrom defense is suppression of the information from wiretaps and searches supervised by FBI Agent William Delaney, who may have run slightly afoul of Biggers’ favor when he testified last week he withheld some statements from the judge that may have influenced whether Biggers approved…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 26, 2008

DJ – Scruggs-Backstrom defense argues against anonymous jury

Scruggs-Backstrom defense argues against anonymous jury “Despite arguing only days ago that the publicity attending Defendants’ upcoming trial was neither remarkable nor prejudicial to Defendants … the Government now takes a 180-degree turn and asks this Court to take the drastic step of empaneling an anonymous jury,” the defense response reads. Individual juror information would…