by Associated Press Published: April 23,2013
Tags: case, elected official, executive, judge, judicial, judiciary, lawmaker, legislator, mail, poison, post, President, public official, ricin, Senator, terror, terrorist, trial
OXFORD — More discussion was likely today of the mental state of the Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge. Christi McCoy, defense attorney for Paul Kevin Curtis, said yesterday she expects testimony from David Daniels, a Tupelo attorney who says Curtis threatened him [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 22,2013
Tags: bench, bribe, bribery, case, court, elected official, executive, judge, judicial, judiciary, law enforcement, legal, mayor, politician. public official, trial
VICKSBURG — A lawyer for Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield has asked a federal judge to delay his trial on a federal bribery charge. Winfield is charged with seeking $10,000 in cash in exchange for a city contract. He has pleaded not guilty. The trial is scheduled for June 3. Winfield’s lawyer says in a court [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 22,2013
Tags: black market, body parts, elected official, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, letter, mail, poison, politician, Politics, post, President, public official, ricin, Senator
OXFORD — The man charged with mailing ricin-laced letters to the president and a senator was expected back in court today, and the hearing could reveal what evidence authorities have collected from searches of his home and vehicle. Through his lawyer, Paul Kevin Curtis has denied any involvement in the letters sent to President Barack [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 19,2013
Tags: arrest, elgislator, entertasiner, executive, government, government leaders, impersonator, judge, law enforcement, lawmaker, letter, mential illness, poison, President, ricin, Senator, terror
CORINTH — The stories from family and acquaintances of a Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and other officials describe a caring father and enthusiastic musician who struggled with mental illness and pursued a conspiracy theory to its farthest reaches. Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, wrote numerous Web posts over the past [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 18,2013
Tags: auditor, bench, circuit clerk, city government, countersuit, elected official, election, itics, judge, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, pay, pol, politician, public official, salary, state agency, vote, voter, Voting
VICKSBURG — Trading one debt in the circuit clerk’s office to pay off another in time for Circuit Clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree to win a third term was a big deal to her in 2011. So much so, that it was written in a letter to state auditors agreeing to the swap. “Pursuant to our phone [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, bribe, bribery, court, judge, judicial, justice, law, lawyer, legal, prison
OXFORD — A judge has granted the request by disbarred Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to return to federal prison to resume serving his sentence on a judicial corruption conviction. Scruggs has been free on $2 million bond since December while appealing the 2009 conviction, but a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: author, bench, case, copyright, copyright infringement, court, film, judge, judicial, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, motion picture, movie, novel, novelist, quote, trial, write, writer
OXFORD — A lawsuit filed by William Faulkner’s heirs over a quote in the Woody Allen film “Midnight in Paris” has been scheduled for trial April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Oxford. The Faulkner estate sued Sony Pictures Classics Inc. in October 2011, saying the company infringed on copyright when actor Owen Wilson [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: attorney, court, ecosystem, engineer, engineering, environment, environmental engineer, environmental engineering, falsified records, fraud, judge, justice, laboratory, law, lawyer, legal, pollution, test, testing, trial, wildlife
WATER VALLEY — A hearing is scheduled today on a motion to dismiss the charges against a laboratory owner charged with faking wastewater samples she was hired to test for a company in Mississippi. Tennie White, who owns Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc., was indicted Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court in Jackson. The indictment [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: abortion, anti-abortion, baby, bench, birth, court, decision, health, health care, judge, judicial, justice, law, legal, license, medical, medicine, pregnancy, pregnant, public health, ruling, state law
JACKSON — Mississippi’s only abortion clinic continued seeing patients yesterday, the day after a federal judge temporarily stopped the state from closing it. Several people wearing florescent yellow vests labeled “Clinic Escort” helped women find parking places and walked with them into the cherry pink building in a Jackson retail district. Outside an iron fence [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 16,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bench, bribe, corruption, court, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, law firm, lawyer, legal, prison
OXFORD — Disbarred Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs wants to return to federal prison pending an appeal of a judicial corruption conviction. Scruggs has been free on $2 million bond since December while appealing the 2009 conviction, but a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected his arguments. In a [...] [...]
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