Scruggs Nation, March 14: beware the day before the Ides of March

There's a hearing today in Oxford on the latest motions. Someone in the comments yesterday asked what time -- 10 a.m. -- although if that pre-trial publicity was one-tenth as pervasive and inflammatory as the defense claims, I suspect he wouldn't have had to post a comment on a blog to find that out, he could have just listened to the people shouting in the street. In any event, it's 10 a.m. -- pack up the babies and grab the old ladies, bring along your PDA or laptop so you can catch all the latest pervasive and inflammatory news, and head on down to the courthouse. Speaking of pervasive, here's an affidavit that was filed in court on the 12th along with a motion I linked to in an earlier post, a motion for reconsideration of having the jury be anonymous. The affidavit was anoth