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Tort king surrenders crown.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 24-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tort king surrenders crown.(Dickie Scruggs sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary on charges of judicial bribery )

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Seventeen days before his trial on charges of judicial bribery was set to begin, Dickie Scruggs entered a plea of guilty March 14 in Federal

District Court in Oxford.

Scruggs and his law partner, Sidney Backstrom, admitted their involvement in a conspiracy to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey.

Prosecutors recommended Scruggs be sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary; they recommended Backstrom receive two and a half years. Scruggs' son, Zach, also indicted in connection to the same case, did not enter a plea. He is scheduled to go to trial March 31.

Scruggs' admission brings an end to three months of legal posturing and rampant speculation that began when he and members of his law firm were first indicted in late...

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