Jackson Free Press

Today, Jackson Free Press Editor-in-Chief Donna Ladd was subpoenaed by the attorney general's office to appear in the upcoming criminal trial of Mayor Frank Melton regarding articles she has published on Melton and guns.

(For background info and links to stories, see the JFP Melton Blog here).

Previous Comments

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124289

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Bummer. I think? Shouldn't they then subpoena other media members from WAPT, WLBT, WJNT and the Clarion Ledger? I would think the defense would try to have any media members disqualified (I don't know all the legalese) as a witness, if that's how it works. But, I'm not an attorney, just stating how I would go at it if you can do that kind of thing.

Author

pikersam

Date

2006-11-10T20:12:07-06:00

ID

124290

Comment

All I will say is: Grumble.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-10T20:14:05-06:00

ID

124291

Comment

Wow. I'm not surprised, but still...wow.

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2006-11-10T20:23:12-06:00

ID

124292

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I hope that this doesn't hamper your reporting, for good or for ill, of this case. You and your staff have done a very good job of offering coverage if this matter, and I would hate to see that squelched. (As a side note, and because I thought of it again while posting my comment, a sidebar on purchasing and learning to properly use a firearm would have been a very interesting sidebar.)

Author

hmg

Date

2006-11-10T20:46:22-06:00

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124293

Comment

My reporters will be covering this trial the same regardless of who is subpoenaed. It's also helpful to know that reporters often get a subpoena when they want to enter one of your stories into the record. It's not unusual.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-10T20:51:11-06:00

ID

124294

Comment

Well, Donna, I've heard you run your mouth before. You will do just fine. :-P

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2006-11-10T20:57:34-06:00

ID

124295

Comment

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense from an evidentiary point of view. I hadn't really thought about that aspect, as there are plenty of other ways to get the article in. I figured they wanted you to testify about your observations when trailing the mayor for that story (and your other observations at other events), and not just to get the article introduced.

Author

hmg

Date

2006-11-10T20:58:29-06:00

ID

124296

Comment

It's probably best if we keep specuations to ourselves. I, for one, certainly will NOT comment on this thread further - never mind that I live 400 miles away.

Author

Philip

Date

2006-11-10T22:06:06-06:00

ID

124297

Comment

Good Luck Donna! You could be important here.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-10T22:22:11-06:00

ID

124298

Comment

It's also helpful to know that reporters often get a subpoena when they want to enter one of your stories into the record. It's not unusual. Well, you learn something new everyday. Good to know. I think WAPT did an indepth story on Melton and his guns too.

Author

pikersam

Date

2006-11-10T22:26:59-06:00

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124299

Comment

Of course Hood is going to subpoena Ladd. It's obvious from the slant of every article published in this "suppedly" journalistically excellent newsletter where her loyalties stand. Hood knows exacty what he will get out of her.

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-11T09:17:58-06:00

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124300

Comment

(What the blue hell does "suppedly" mean?)

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-11T10:01:24-06:00

ID

124301

Comment

"supposedly"

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-11T10:08:16-06:00

ID

124302

Comment

I think that it great that Donna will be able to speak at this trial. Melton's camp seems to have overlooked the fact that calling people to testify can also open up the door for the prosecutors to ask questions too. In this trial the truth, IMO, will be Melton's biggest hill to climb. All of this windowdressing about how good of a person that he is dosen't have anything to do with the facts that he stepped over the line and should be dealt with as any other individual. I would hate to think about what he would do if he is exonetated. He may even try arrest the people that went against him. He REALLY would be the Ultimate Authority.

Author

lance

Date

2006-11-11T10:14:52-06:00

ID

124303

Comment

It's obvious from the slant of every article published in this "suppedly" journalistically excellent newsletter where her loyalties stand. Hood knows exacty what he will get out of her. While it is true the prosecutors know what she'll say on the stand, I'd argue her only loyalty lies in telling the truth in this matter.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-11T10:16:33-06:00

ID

124304

Comment

Good luck Donna, I support you all the way. Peachie

Author

Pmm

Date

2006-11-11T10:25:06-06:00

ID

124305

Comment

Donna it will actually be refreshing to have you at the trial. An actual real-live human being on the witness stand telling the actual truth.....be still my heart.

Author

The Conductor

Date

2006-11-11T11:57:03-06:00

ID

124306

Comment

Yeah, I guess cooper's becons of truth are Melton, Blunston, and Stokes. Notice the JFP hasn't gone and deleted their election coverage or other stories about Melton off the website. Unlike one of the star witnesses for Melton.

Author

pikersam

Date

2006-11-11T12:15:36-06:00

ID

124307

Comment

Its always about her.................

Author

Kingfish

Date

2006-11-11T12:26:24-06:00

ID

124308

Comment

The sticking point is not Melton and whether or not he should be supported. It's the fact that this newsletter is so incredibly slanted, and tries to pass itself off as a credible news source.

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-11T14:23:24-06:00

ID

124309

Comment

copper, the Clarion-Ledger endorsed Melton, was a co-defendant with Melton in a libel suit (a fact that it did not report in the campaign), refused to bring up past Melton scandals, and spent years reaming Johnson, and you're calling Donna slanted? Give me a friggin' break. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-11T15:47:02-06:00

ID

124310

Comment

I definitely slant the Jackson Free Press—squarely toward the truth. That makes some people uncomfortable. There's nothing I can do about that.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-11T17:51:44-06:00

ID

124311

Comment

Well, Donna, you could always lie... ;o) Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-11T17:57:21-06:00

ID

124312

Comment

Or, just omit whole swaths of the truth that make some people uncomfortable. No, thanks. We'll leave that one to y'all over there, copper.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-11T18:27:38-06:00

ID

124313

Comment

Since this appears to have become another trash-Donna-Ladd thread, I don't feel bad at all about completely derailing it with a self-indulgent non sequitur (ME! ME! ME!) by bragging that I was elected Secretary of Mississippi NOW this afternoon, and remain Jackson Area NOW's Public and Community Outreach Chair. Two hats, one Head. :o) I [heart] NOW. I came in thinking it would be a peripheral thing and that the ACLU would be my main focus, but what I found is that NOW's priorities are my priorities: not just pro-choice, Title IX, and other explicitly feminist issues, but also antiracism, antiheterosexism, domestic violence prevention, universal health care, disability rights, and a host of other issues near and dear to my heart. There is nothing that I am very concerned about, in public policy, that NOW is not also very concerned about. And the way it's volunteer-driven, shoestring budget, rejects corporate sponsorship, etc. puts me in a good position to thrive there. I really feel at home in NOW, and I have learned and changed in some very good ways through my participation there. I'm a very happy camper! Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-11T18:43:18-06:00

ID

124314

Comment

Oh, congrats, Tom. That is super. Beats getting a subpoena any day. ;-) You're doing great work. (BTW, has anyone else noticed that the local corporate media's new wish-word for the JFP is "newsletter." That's what ole Newhouse called us, too. Maybe there was a memo. )

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-11T18:45:17-06:00

ID

124315

Comment

Thanks for this. :o) And I'm sure I'll get my own subpoena one of these days--I've come close to being subpoenaed a few times, but it has never actually happened yet. Is this your first...? Be sure to tell me how it goes! Re "newsletter": That sounds like typical monopoly jargon. If you're a McGannett in a relatively small market, you are the newspaper and everyone else becomes a newsletter--even if they're whipping your butt. "I am big, dahling, it's the pictures that got small!" Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-11T19:03:37-06:00

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124316

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Yep, it's my personal first, although I've worked with reporters who've gotten them. As I said, they are not uncommon in situations where they want to get your reporting into the record.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-11T19:08:09-06:00

ID

124317

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[quote]I was elected Secretary of Mississippi NOW this afternoon, and remain Jackson Area NOW's Public and Community Outreach Chair. Two hats, one Head. :o)[/quote] Now that was funny! Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read it!

Author

Rico

Date

2006-11-11T19:17:31-06:00

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124318

Comment

I can't believe they considered JFP "real" media. Those Simpsons better watch out!

Author

Skinnyp

Date

2006-11-11T19:55:49-06:00

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124319

Comment

Tom: OUCH! NOW that's funny. :)

Author

Lady Havoc

Date

2006-11-11T21:55:41-06:00

ID

124320

Comment

"Swaths of truth"... Ms. Ladd, there are a few swaths of truth I believe your newsletter hasn't touched upon. How about the recent news that Faye Peterson may have violated the law by speaking to Marcus Wright and telling him "you can get out of this"? And as I recall, the indictments out of Jim Hood's office were rife with errors and had to be corrected. Did you report that as part of your continuing team coverage of the Melton ordeal? If so, I must have missed that between coverage of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and homosexuals coming out of the closet. So truth should at least be an attempt at the whole truth, don't you agree?

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-12T11:20:07-06:00

ID

124321

Comment

Copper thief you need to quit being an idiot Here is the story on Marcus Wright and the DA. And here is a thread where bloggers dicussed the errors. In fact it includes much legal speculation and obvious bias of one Mark L. "I'm assuming he's calling the felony charge the MCSOL incident. As I said, I was there. I saw no gun. I saw not indicia of a gun. Nobody I have talked to saw a gun. Nobody I have talked to saw indicia of it. It wasn't a big meeting; and I know that someone called your buddy Kim's show sand said he saw a "characteristic lump" of a concealed weapon. I haven't identified who that person is, yet, though. The person I thought it might have been says it wasn't him. I think the AG is going to have a really hard time proving that charge. I'm aware of at least five people (six, if I count myself) who would be able to testify that they were there, that they observed Melton, and that he did not have a gun. Mark L. Hmmm.....

Author

pikersam

Date

2006-11-12T11:39:57-06:00

ID

124322

Comment

More from mark.... No, I'm certainly aware that I have been involved in a campaign against Harvey, who instituted polices that made it impossible for my customers and myself to do business with the City of Jackson. Harvey also pushed the Redevelopment Authority to not sell me the block of houses that I wanted to purchase and renovate to rent or sell to law students. I was fairly confident that either Melton or Whitlow would do a much better job not just for me and my interests here in the city but for the city as a whole. I still think that Frank has done a better job than Harvey, and while I am concerned about the Mayor's actions, am in no place to offer my input to him (in fact, the MCSOL event was the only time I've personally seen him since the debate at Murrah). His administration has gotten several of the long-delayed projects I wanted to be involved with going again, however, which has been encouraging. I've had no luck with the Redevelopment Authority. Then he follows up with... Yes, I understand that I am not the best of witnesses. It's better to have someone completely disinterested (though, I derive no benefit regardless of whether I saw a firearm or indicia of one) and there were plenty of those people there. I've talked to a number of them, none of whom have any recollection of Melton carrying a firearm. Well, right here in the first post he is proclaiming that the past mayor kept him from purchasing some houses. Then he goes on to say in the next post "I derive no benefit regardless of whether I saw a firearm or indicia of one" Yet, in the first post he says, "I was fairly confident that either Melton or Whitlow would do a much better job not just for me and my interests here in the city but for the city as a whole." Me! and My interests! tisk, tisk, tisk.... Just read the thread I linked and decide for yourself how biased Harveymustgo is.

Author

pikersam

Date

2006-11-12T11:59:34-06:00

ID

124323

Comment

On a similar side note, this judge in Florida seems just like Melton's kind of guy!

Author

pikersam

Date

2006-11-12T12:03:56-06:00

ID

124324

Comment

I find it funny "copper thief" (who should all be in jail, for their pernicious vandalism) only shows up when this is all getting started, and immediately starts slamming everything the JFP says about melton. Astroturfing? Plant? I'm curious.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-12T12:26:04-06:00

ID

124325

Comment

The Jackson Free Press writes as if we are always under oath. In other words, we always dig until we get at the truth, (although the administration often does all it can to impede us) and more than that, we always back up our reporting with as many "facts" as we can get our hands on, preferably internal documents, responses to official records requests and court documents. We do this because a) it is good journalism, b) it's imperative for an independent taking on the big boys, not that this keeps the know-nothings from accusing us of being a "socialist rag" anyway, and c) there are plenty of people who have the means and disposition to sue us, should they have the opportunity. When Donna takes the stand, I am sure you will hear her say the same things she has printed at length. There will be no surprises. There will be a journalist describing what she has seen. Many, many people have seen the mayor violate his weapons permit at a misdemeanor level (in a bar, or at a church, or in city hall) at the very least. One of the ironies of the Ridgeway incident (which is not included in this trial) is that if the duplex really was a "known drug house," as the mayor's supporters insist, then the mayor was violating the terms of his weapons permit by entering the house armed. Frankly, if the A.G. wanted, he could subpoena most of Jackson's media for testimony.

Author

Brian C Johnson

Date

2006-11-12T13:35:52-06:00

ID

124326

Comment

copper, there was no need to overblow a typo on the indictments into a major conspiracy—being that both the D.A. and AG and the sheriff made it absolutely clear to the media and the public how many indictments there were on Day 1—including misdemeanors and felonies. If you're familiar with the legal documents world, you know that corrections are made all the time. That was no big deal. The indictments are the same today as they were on Sept. 15. Only irresponsible media would have overblown that into something it wasn't. We've leave that to other folks. (Iron, it's more like miffed mainstream media man. Look at his comment history, what there is of it. It's all about anger toward the JFP, starting with us breaking the Ridgeway Street story and chiding WLBT for trying to take credit for breaking the story—in order words, lying. Take this for what it's worth.)

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-12T15:06:11-06:00

ID

124327

Comment

Take this for what it's worth. Hey, honey? Here's a salt shaker. it's worth more. :)

Author

Lady Havoc

Date

2006-11-12T15:09:32-06:00

ID

124328

Comment

copper thief writes: If so, I must have missed that between coverage of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and homosexuals coming out of the closet. Gee, there's nothing like a homophobic non sequitur to reassure folks that you don't have an agenda. I'm sure the Clarion-Ledger editorial team would be impressed, but I'm not. Buzz off. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-12T16:05:25-06:00

ID

124329

Comment

Snicker. I didn't even notice that line. I think it's safe to say that copper is here to troll for a fight. Sigh.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-12T16:10:50-06:00

ID

124330

Comment

Pike: Bloggers discussing the Melton errors is not a story. Unless the blogs here are considered part of the journalistic "integrity" of this newsletter? Donna: Nice try. Covering a story is not blowing it into a conspiracy. You argue your points Sean Hannity-style. How do you like that company? And it's funny to see you call someone a troll..... Tom H: Predictable response from you. I didn't realize the mention of homosexuals was an insult.

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-12T19:48:18-06:00

ID

124331

Comment

Brian C. Johnson: I wish you were running with other company, honestly. You have a good head on your shoulders.

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-12T19:55:41-06:00

ID

124332

Comment

copper thief writes: I wish you were running with other company, honestly. You have a good head on your shoulders. Be careful, Brian. I'm pretty sure this is the exact same guy who emailed me with an identical comment a year and a half ago, and now I've been downgraded to... copper thief writes: Predictable response from you. I didn't realize the mention of homosexuals was an insult. Lo, how the mighty have fallen. Behold, if only the mighty gave a shit. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-12T20:05:53-06:00

ID

124333

Comment

I love being called a guy.

Author

copper thief

Date

2006-11-12T20:11:08-06:00

ID

124334

Comment

*sigh* Troll.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-12T20:29:35-06:00

ID

124335

Comment

Who is this boy copper thief?

Author

emilyb

Date

2006-11-12T23:56:01-06:00

ID

124336

Comment

ladd is the only one who has the balls to tell the truth. that's why they reeled her in. she's the only one that doesn't kiss booty! haha

Author

yaya

Date

2006-11-13T02:09:26-06:00

ID

124337

Comment

Didn't you know that the JFP is the "TRUTH" ? I compare it to the Holy Bible. Melton is evil! No other politician in Jackson's history committed any crimes. Jackson was so nice until Melton came into office.

Author

Davey

Date

2006-11-13T13:22:52-06:00

ID

124338

Comment

Davey, please do not call Melton "evil." There's no call for that. Let's stick to the facts that are on the table, rather than resort to rhetorical personal insults. And there are plenty of facts on the table. Thanks for the compliment, by the way, but the Holy Bible? I don't think so.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T13:26:57-06:00

ID

124339

Comment

FWIW, that was no compliment... just some a lot of sarcasm.

Author

millhouse

Date

2006-11-13T14:03:15-06:00

ID

124340

Comment

Really?

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T14:21:17-06:00

ID

124341

Comment

Personally, I find that the JFP covers women's issues a whole lot more intelligently than the bible.

Author

kate

Date

2006-11-13T14:23:19-06:00

ID

124342

Comment

hmmm, Kate you have a point

Author

Izzy

Date

2006-11-13T15:03:25-06:00

ID

124343

Comment

I'm sure Tom and I could write reams on why womens issues and the bible aren't exactly incompatiable... Or maybe I can, I dunno.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-13T16:02:13-06:00

ID

124344

Comment

iron, didn't say the bible didn't cover women's issues. Just said I liked the JFP coverage better. For instance, there are actual women who write for the JFP, for one thing.

Author

kate

Date

2006-11-13T16:26:44-06:00

ID

124345

Comment

... and about serious issues, to boot! Get this, women even contribute to editorials in these parts. ;-)

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T16:30:03-06:00

ID

124346

Comment

You know, there is speculation that the Book of Hebrews could have been written by Priscilla, Aquila's wife and friend of Paul. Most just say Paul wrote it, but they don't know for sure.

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2006-11-13T16:43:33-06:00

ID

124347

Comment

IG, there are definitely pro-feminist ways that one can interpret the Bible, but it's hard to do. There is a passage in Deuteronomy, for example, that mandates the death penalty for women who are raped in the city and don't shout loud enough for help to arrive. It's really a very depressing book from a women's rights perspective. The good news? By the standards of their time, the biblical authors were almost all feminists. Even Paul, if we assume (as I do) that Timothy was written by his followers as a tribute in the years following his death. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-13T16:45:03-06:00

ID

124348

Comment

Latasha, I've heard that theory and it's not a bad one. Priscilla's background WOULD be amenable to Hebrews, and it would explain why the author was anonymous. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-13T16:45:44-06:00

ID

124349

Comment

Harold Bloom also hypothesized, in The Book of J, that the author of the central Pentateuch narrative (not the laws, but the folk stories) was a woman. I don't buy that because I don't think the Pentateuch was written by any single author--I think it was created over time through a huge oral tradition--but women have traditionally been those who retell stories to children of the next generation, so I think that, in practice, most of the stories that would eventually make up the Hebrew Bible were created by women. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-13T16:46:54-06:00

ID

124350

Comment

Sorry, ladd... thought you may have been having an off day. :p

Author

millhouse

Date

2006-11-13T16:48:46-06:00

ID

124351

Comment

You know, there is speculation that the Book of Hebrews could have been written by Priscilla, Aquila's wife and friend of Paul. Can I just say how much I love the direction this has gone? Y'all are something. ;-D

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T17:15:49-06:00

ID

124352

Comment

This is one of the few places where you can start off on one subject and totally end up somewhere else! Kinda fun...except for the occasional argument.

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2006-11-13T17:33:08-06:00

ID

124353

Comment

Still think the JFP is better at women's issues than the bible. The women get to actually sign their names to their own writings.

Author

kate

Date

2006-11-13T18:59:52-06:00

ID

124354

Comment

And they get to post stuff like that without being stoned. So to speak. ;-)

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T19:03:21-06:00

ID

124355

Comment

Oh, agreed... In fact, you'd have to look pretty far to find something that isn't any more progressive than the Bible on women's issues these days. I mean, where else can you find a written record of a community, with editorial control in the hands of an all-male hierarchy, where women are kept silent and encouraged to maintain a subordinate position, driving out all competing voices under the authority of a faceless national institution that-- Oh, right. Never mind... ;o) Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-13T19:49:57-06:00

ID

124356

Comment

That's it, I'm scratching Tom out as Co-author on this one. :)

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-13T19:59:54-06:00

ID

124357

Comment

Well, the good news is that there is great stuff there, too. ;-)

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T20:04:02-06:00

ID

124358

Comment

You're a good egg, IG. :o) And there certainly is lots of good stuff in the Bible... The best stuff, IMHO, especially given the time period. (Anyone who reads Ecclesiastes and gets nothing out of it is just...weird.) I actually wrote a 336-page Bible guide last summer, have studied the Bible at the graduate level, and can even read a little Hebrew. And where the Bible fails as literature or moral instruction, it excels at being a marvelously exhaustive primary source record of what life was like thousands of years ago. I don't think folks realize how rare documents from the ancient world are, but the Bible would be incredibly special even if nobody ever attached any religious significance to it. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-13T20:14:31-06:00

ID

124359

Comment

By the way, my last post was a subtle jab at the Clarion-Ledger--I'm surprised nobody groaned... :P Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-11-13T20:15:59-06:00

ID

124360

Comment

Must have missed it. :)

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-11-13T21:03:33-06:00

ID

124361

Comment

OW! I get the point, Tom! :)

Author

Lady Havoc

Date

2006-11-13T21:10:41-06:00

ID

124362

Comment

I mean, where else can you find a written record of a community, with editorial control in the hands of an all-male hierarchy, where women are kept silent and encouraged to maintain a subordinate position, driving out all competing voices under the authority of a faceless national institution that-- Oooo, I get it now. Good Ledge summary. A woman runs the metro desk, you know. Terribly, but still.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-11-13T21:26:12-06:00

ID

124363

Comment

Anyone see Melton's "Dream Team" is falling apart? http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061113/NEWS/61113035

Author

Cliff Cargill

Date

2006-11-13T21:37:03-06:00

ID

124364

Comment

I thought this lawyer buddy said: "I aint gonna let nuthin' happen to my home-boy..." Hmmmm.....

Author

Cliff Cargill

Date

2006-11-13T22:17:25-06:00

ID

124365

Comment

Sorry I haven't followed the whole thread. But a word of advice, they don't want or expect the "truth' in court, it's a well rehearsed play. Depending on who you are, they'll rehearse it before hand. Depending on what side your on, they'll coach you on the answers. I love a neophyte in the court. Can't never get it right!

Author

Doc Rogers

Date

2006-11-13T23:12:28-06:00

ID

124366

Comment

Doc, I think you're right about it being a play. However, as we've seen from Melton's past court performances, he doesn't always stick to the script. Or, he can't remember which script he's reading from on a given day. That's what's going to make this one a circus.

Author

kate

Date

2006-11-14T08:32:51-06:00

ID

124367

Comment

Cliff, I don't think Team Melton is falling apart. Washington is tied-up with USA v. Williams, a multiple-count capital murder case in Texas. He can't be in 2 places at once. And the DJ in the Williams case damn sure won't continue a capital murder case so Washington can go try a low-grade weapon-possession case in Mississippi.

Author

Curt Crowley

Date

2006-11-14T08:43:51-06:00

ID

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Comment

Amen Curt. If Melton somehow slips past the initial charges, Craig will be here and he will be the lead attorney on those other cases. Williams is crazy, has prolonged the case due to refusing to stipulate to obvious matters, has run up the expenses of the case exponentially, and has probably created a situation that Craig and no one else can overcome. However, I met several of the lawyers who represented Masoui (911 conspirator). I asked if they were surprised they won and got a laugh and "yes."

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2006-11-14T09:40:04-06:00