The Associated Press is reporting:
A federal jury today acquitted Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. of Biloxi on tax evasion charges, likely ending a legal saga that has kept Diaz off the bench for more than two years. "I'm ready to get back to doing the job the people elected me to do," a smiling Diaz, 46, said after hugging his parents outside the federal courthouse in downtown Jackson.
Diaz was cleared by another federal jury last summer in a judicial bribery case that also involved two former Gulf Coast trial court judges and a high-profile trial lawyer. The tax-evasion indictment against Diaz was handed down in March 2004 but was not made public until the bribery trial ended this past August.
U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton could not immediately be reached for comment after the verdict.
So, it would be very interesting to figure out how much these cases cost the taxpayers.
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