More on the Jones v. Scruggs sanctions hearing

It's not the first time this has happened to me during the Katrina Follies, that I have trouble believing what I'm hearing. I think I am a hardened observer of these events and that nothing could shock me anymore, but then something else does. Like the testimony by Judge Lackey yesterday about not being able to go to the Mississippi Attorney General's Office because, he was told, Jim Hood had buckled to pressure from Dickie Scruggs to cooperate in Scruggs' mass Katrina settlement with State Farm that netted the $26.5 million in fees at the core of the Jones v. Scruggs dispute. One can draw two inferences from this: that Lackey believed Hood was compromised because of his role in bringing about the conditions that led to the lawsuit, and two, that Lackey believed Hood was controlle