Were judges presiding in my cases against Obama offered higher positions in exchange for ruling for Obama and attacking me with sanctions and slander? Demand criminal investigation of judges by the Integrity unit of DOJ?
Posted on | January 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
Disgraced Miss. judge to report to federal prison
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AP – FILE -In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 file photo, former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter, listens …
By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 50 mins ago
JACKSON, Miss. – Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, is set to report to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation.
The next chapter of DeLaughter’s life, as inmate No. 12930-042, marks a long fall from the height of his legal career in 1994 when he was a prosecutor who helped convict a civil rights-era assassin for the 30-year-old murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers.
The 55-year-old DeLaughter (deh-LAW’-ter) was to report to a federal prison camp in McCreary, Ky., by 2 p.m.
DeLaughter’s lawyer, Thomas Durkin of Chicago, told The Associated Press on Monday that he didn’t know exactly what time DeLaughter would report to prison, but that he wouldn’t be late. A prison official said he was not in custody as of about 10:45 a.m.
DeLaughter was sentenced to 18 months in November after pleading guilty to lying about secret conversations he had with a lawyer while presiding over a dispute between wealthy lawyers over legal fees. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped conspiracy and mail fraud charges.
DeLaughter made a name for himself as an assistant district attorney when he helped put away Byron de la Beckwith for Evers’ 1963 murder.
He was appointed to the bench in 2002 and was later elected to the position.
His storied career ended with the same bribery scandal that toppled Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, chief architect of the multibillion-dollar tobacco litigation of the 1990s — which was depicted in the movie “The Insider,” starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.
DeLaughter was presiding over a lawsuit in which a lawyer sued Scruggs for a bigger cut of millions in legal fees from asbestos litigation. Prosecutors said DeLaughter ruled in Scruggs’ favor in exchange for a promise that he’d be considered for a federal judgeship, with help from Scruggs’ high-powered connections.
DeLaughter ruled in 2006 that Scruggs didn’t owe the former partner anything more than a belated $1.5 million payment. The ruling was contrary to the findings of a special master appointed to weigh the evidence before trial.
DeLaughter pleaded guilty only to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with his old boss, former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters. Peters was accused of receiving $1 million to influence DeLaughter, but he cooperated in the investigation and was not charged.
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2 Responses to “Were judges presiding in my cases against Obama offered higher positions in exchange for ruling for Obama and attacking me with sanctions and slander? Demand criminal investigation of judges by the Integrity unit of DOJ?”
January 4th, 2010 @ 5:00 pm
THIS IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF AMERICAS JUDGES? SUPREME COURT DOWN TO LOCAL YOCAL JUDGE? THE WHOLE SYSTEM NEEDS INVESTIGATED BY WHOM ? WHO AND WHAT AMERICAN AGENCIE IS TRUSTWORTHY AND HONEST NAME ONE PLEASE?ANYWAY OBAMA NEEDS ARESTED AND MADE TO PROVE HE IS AN AMERICAN 100 PERCENT? PUT HIM ON THE DEFENSIVE SEE HOW HE REACTS TO PRESSURE? SENATORS AND ALL POLITITIANS VOTEING FOR CHANGES IN AMERICA ? AMERICAN VOTERS DONT WANT INVESTIGATE FOR BRIBES FAVORS OWED AND ANYTHING ELSE ILLEGAL? LETS GET AMERICA AMERICAN AGAIN? A BIRTH CERTIFICATE CARRYING AMERICAN LEGAL CITIZEN>>OBAMA CANT SAY THAT??
January 4th, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
I As a 100 PERCENT LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZEN? Dont believe theres an HONEST JUDGE left in AMERICA. If there is AMERICANS have not seen one for quite a while.ORLY TAITZ someway somehow find a AMERICAN LAWMAN to do HIS DUTY? OBAMA WAS NOT IN OFFICE WHEN FRAUD CHARGES WERE TRYING TO BE FILED? SO WHY CANT HE BE ARRESTED AND BROUGHT TO COURT? NO IMPEACHMENT NEEDED was not in OFFICE as PRESIDENT when CHARGES was thrownout of COURT?And get this GUY on way to where he belongs? And then start PROSECUTEING THE OTHERS INVOLVED IN FRAUD?