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Corrupt Prosecutor Gets Promoted To Become Corrupt Judge
Monday, August 10th, 2009Last week, Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter pled guilty to lying to FBI agents investigating him for corruption.
Before he became a judge, DaLaughter was the prosecutor who hid exclupatory evidence from the jury in the murder and robbery case against Cedric Willis. Willis did 12 years at Parchman Penitentiary before he was exonerated and released in 2007.
Isn’t this the same type of charge that sent Martha Steward to prison? Do you relize most people would never be able to hold many jobs or own a firearm if convicted and this guy is a judge?Unbelievable, and it’s still ok to lie to you.The best advice is never,ever,talk to the police,ever.
Thanks again Mississippi for ensuring that we will always rank in the top 49.
yea but it caught up with him sort of. He got an 18 month plea “deal” for corrupting the judicial system. It’s the same deal a kid I know in Mississippi was offered for destroying $25 worth of state property (+ a $1,500 fine).
So, if a=b, b=c, then a=c, corruption of the Mississippi judicial system is worth about $25. that’s what I thought.
(the kid didn’t take the plea, was convicted due to State employees lying on the stand, the judge Gordon who doesn’t like to waste the court’s time with unnecessary trials, slapped the 18 year old with 3 years at Walnut Grove). It’s all fair though.
the kid who destroyed $25 of State property in desperation, will do twice as much time as Judge DeLaughter who corrupted the judicial system. Ha. Life in the American criminal justice system.
Is this the guy played by Alec Baldwin in that civil rights movie whose name I can’t remember?
Yep, IMDB says it is so (Ghosts of Mississippi).
Too bad this ass is memorialized so affectionately on celluloid. Sounds like the movie really glossed over lots of stuff.
I quote myself from a comment I made in Morning Links on July 27th.
“I’ve noticed that a lot of federal investigations ultimately end up with charges being filed for nothing more than lying to the government. Martha Stewart is one, but there have been several others since then. In fact, it’s become so common that I now listen for that one thing when I hear a story on the radio about any federal case. I’m rarely disappointed.”
Corruption in the Mississippi legal system?
LOL.
Find someone there that ISN’T corrupt, now that’d be news.
Corrupt Prosecutor Gets Promoted To Become Corrupt Judge …
… In Corrupt System.
And no, I don’t mean just Mississippi.
Yeah, the lying to Federal Investigators charge is generally crap. Never talk to the Government – except of course when you don’t talk to them, know that the guidelines will give you an extra 5 to 10 years for not “cooperating.”
If Federal Investigators are interviewing someone, and that person is not under oath, how is that charge justified under the 1st Amendment and/or “self-defense?” Obviously, the investigators are allowed to lie to you.
2 people that I was around this weekend brought up the Gates/Crowley thing. Discussion quickly turned to race card being played (even though it’s an ethnicity card, Gates is part of the human race). We agreed that race doesn’t appear to have been an overt factor in the incident. I tried to make the point that the cop should have left after verifying Gates’ ownership of home, and thus the Disorderly Conduct charge was bogus and an attempt to assert AUTHORITAH, that I don’t like cops, that there is a deep systemic problem, and any system (ESPECIALLY one that deals with removing a person’s freedom, destruction of their life, and even killing people, so should be held to a much much higher standard) that investigates itself can never promote honesty and integrity because there is no incentive to do so:
1) You made a choice not to be a cop. (I agreed and then asked how this is relevant — silence and debate point changed).
2) If cops were paid more, you would see less corrupt cops. (I asked how pay is proportional to integrity, is there a pay level at which they think all corruption will go away, and if it’s ok with them for corruption to occur on a scale that is proportional with a cop’s pay — silence and debate point changed).
3) People should be nice to each other, what can you expect when you’re not courteous, and we can’t have a society where people don’t treat cops with respect and can say whatever they want to them. (I asked if they believe in free speech, or speech that is acceptable based on your job title; why can’t cops ignore words; government can’t legislate good behavior; who defines what is the good and bad behavior and accompanying punishment — silence and debate point changed).
4) Cops should be able to arrest people if they’re being disrespected. (I asked on what grounds would justify kidnapping and curtailing your free speech; how such an idea can be enforced when it’s arbitrary; why they think cops are a higher class of person to defer to them; 1st Amendment and case law in regards to cops — silence and debate point changed).
5) Disorderly Conduct is an appropriate charge to arrest people with if they aren’t behaving. (I tried to explain the vagueness of the term, thus making any behavior arrestable, which is contradictory to a free society; the original and true intent of the charge — silence and debate point changed).
6) Gates deserved it. (I asked if you have a right to behave however you like in your own home and property, so long as you’re not physically hurting someone or their property — silence and debate point changed).
It was quite unnerving at the inability of these 2 people to have a rational thought process, and the unwillingness to answer any questions. The topic was then changed by them. Amazing.
I should would like someone to get tough on crime and put these prosecutors in prison when they subvert the constitution.
His name is oddly appropriate. I’m sure he DeLaughs at any attempt to take him down. So we still have a Wild West only it’s actually the Wild South and not nearly as fun since we can’t have bordellos. This place both sucks and blows.
The Willis case was truly shocking. By the time the case went to trial, everyone knew that Willis was certainly innocent, but Judge Breland Hilburn wouldn’t allow any of that evidence at the trial. What’s wrong with that guy?