Mississippi Business Journal » convictions http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Scruggs petitions to have corruption conviction tossed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/24/scruggs-petitions-to-have-corruption-conviction-tossed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scruggs-petitions-to-have-corruption-conviction-tossed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/24/scruggs-petitions-to-have-corruption-conviction-tossed/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:12:41 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=42825 OXFORD — Imprisoned former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has asked a federal court to throw out his conviction in the judicial corruption case involving former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. Scruggs’ legal argument in the motion, filed in U.S. District Court in North Mississippi, is that the U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of [...]

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