Biloxi trial tells a film-noir tale: featured are a dead judge, corrupt mayor, prison scam, lonely gays

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Former Biloxi, MS mayor Peter Halat Jr. was convicted of wire fraud conspiracy and obstruction of justice by a federal court jury on Jul 17, 1997. Halat's convictions were part of the verdict in US v. Nix, which involved a nationwide swindle of gay men run from a Louisiana prison and the murders of Biloxi councilwoman Margaret Sherry and her husband, circuit court judge Vincent Sherry, in 1987. The murders were ordered by the swindle's mastermind, Kirksey McCord Nix Jr., currently serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Nix and two other co-defendants were also convicted.

United States, Biography, Mississippi, Crime, Biloxi, Mississippi, Conspiracy, Obstruction of justice, Halat, Peter, Jr., Nix, Kirksey McCord, Jr.

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'Lawyer' label hurts at polls; in the South, tactic worked against both parties' candidates

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The efforts of insurance companies in the South to demonize plaintiffs' litigators trying to enter politics are described. Public relations experts vilify trial litigators as the reason for the litigation explosion and the rise in insurance rates.

Legal services, Attorneys, Offices of Lawyers, States, Political activity, Lawyers, Elections, Southern States

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Suit over stun belt clears its first bar; celebrity inmate Billy Wayne Sinclair argues his own case

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A suit argued by celebrity inmate Billy Wayne Sinclair as a pro per that use of the stun belts as a prison discipline method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is discussed.

Louisiana, Cruel and unusual punishment, Prison discipline, Sinclair, Billy Wayne

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