Scruggs Nation, February 22: home sour home

There's no place like home . . . gulp. Or so Dickie Scruggs and the other alleged bribery conspirators seemed to think when they filed their motion for a change of venue for their scheduled March 31 trial. However, Judge Biggers has turned that motion down, apparently along with all the others (the news stories I read are unclear about the fate of the motions to sever the trials of Zach Scruggs and Sid Backstrom from that of Dickie Scruggs, but since they don't affirmatively say the motions were granted, I'm assuming those motions also were denied). Here's an update from the Daily Journal, and here's one from the Clarion-Ledger. There was a new motion filed in USA v. Scruggs (Northern Mississippi edition) yesterday -- a motion by the government to empanel an anonymous jury and sequ