Second Update on State Farm v. Hood hearing: Hood speaks

Here's the latest (I've had this information for a while but just got a few minutes to blog) on the hearing: Hood was on the stand this afternoon for over three hours. A common theme throughout the testimony was I don't know, you'll have to ask Courtney Schloemer, she was running the investigation. I don't micromanage these things. Hood says Schloemer wrote the letter to Alice Martin, he reviewed and signed it, that Schloemer wrote the subpoenas, and that in his mind there isn't any non-prosecution agreement because State Farm didn't get the class action settlement approved by Judge Senter and that was a condition of the agreement. Hood denied doing anything for campaign contributions as a quid pro quo. He admitted talking to Dickie Scruggs and others before filing his