SECOND UPDATE: Here's a copy of last Friday's sealed motion, now unsealed, in which some of the defense strategy is laid out. UPDATE: Dickie Scruggs' lawyer says he was framed. Here's a story about it from Anita Lee of the Sun Herald, and here's an excerpt:Attorney John Keker said during a procedural hearing that FBI investigators offered "very misleading" evdience so a judge would agree to continue wiretaps into its investigation of his client. Keker also asked for FBI notes on the wiretaps to further that argument. Scruggs and two other defendants are going to ask that the tapes not be used at trial.A September 2007 tape recording indicates Lackey was trying to lead Balducci to say that Scruggs was aware of the bribe and that Scruggs put the money up for the brib
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