Further examination of the Scruggs indictment and the Jones v. Scruggs lawsuit

Normally Saturday is a non-blogging day for me, but because of the extremely high public interest in the events of this last week and the importance of this story, I am posting today. If you are new to this story, you should refer to my posts of earlier this week for background and my previous analysis of the events surrounding the indictment of Dickie Scruggs and four others. As I have done for the past few days, I will use subheads within this post to make it easier both for me to write and for you to read. We would do well also to keep in mind that the indictments are merely allegations. Nothing has been proven, and the law holds all innocent until proven guilty. Nothing I say in this post or have said in any other post should be taken as an accusation of guilt -- here we ar