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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 08:14 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:54
So says a letter to the editor in the widely read Jackson Clarion Ledger:
If Attorney General Jim Hood is too close to the defendants in the high-profile bribery cases involving Dickie Scruggs and others to prosecute Mississippi’s cases, then perhaps he should resign his office.
He recently suggested that he could not pursue charges because “It would be like prosecuting my relatives” (“Hood says filing charges in bribery scandal would be conflict of interest,” Feb. 18). A district attorney should pursue charges. Is this the best advice, or is his family like relationship clouding his counsel?