(Zach) Scruggs Nation, March 19

Let's return for a moment to last week and the plea agreements of Dickie Scruggs and Sid Backstrom. We can surmise from the fact that Scruggs and Backstrom made plea agreements that Zach Scruggs also discussed a plea agreement.My working hypothesis was that one strong motivation for Dickie Scruggs to make a deal was to help get Zach out of this mess. This was based not just on common sense but information I received about family pressures Scruggs was receiving. Since then, I have also gotten quite a lot of information about what might have happened that led to no deal for Zach, and not all of this information is entirely consistent, or more accurately, it is consistent to a point but it is missing unanimity on the one key thing -- exactly why the deal fell apart. I believe that so