Scruggs defense team files reply brief in USA v. Scruggs, defends sending of documents to AG Hood as legit cooperation w

Dickie Scruggs, charged with criminal contempt of court for allegedly working with Mississippi AG Hood to circumvent a federal judge's injunction, has filed his reply to a special prosecutors' brief detailing Scruggs' supposed legal "sham."An excerpt from the Scruggs brief:Aside from being factually wrong, the "sham" theory fails as a matter of law because the Injunction's law-enforcement exemption requires nothing more than a request from law-enforcement officials. It does not require any inquiry into the state of mind of the requesting officials, or any inquiry into the process by which those officials decided to request the documents. Due process forbids reading additional restrictions and qualifications into the Injunction's law-enforcement exempti