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Lots of folks in Mississippi wonder why Adams County Circuit Clerk ML 'Binky' Vines was indicted by the State Auditor, Phil Bryant, on 13 felony counts of embezzlement for 2003, and pled guilty to three of them, and then the judge didn't accept his guilty plea. Vines was allowed to remain as Adams County Circuit Clerk, and to run for re-election, to the astonishment of even the former Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice. Jim Hood, the Mississippi Attorney General was the prosecutor, and received much unfavorable press for the deal.Even after Circuit Clerk Vines violated the provisions of his non-adjudication agreement, Jim Hood, the Mississippi Attorney General, did not press for incarceration. The reason may be that Vines was being encouraged to strike a plea bargain in his embezzlement trial, in exchange for Vines' testimony against the MS Attorney General, Jim Hood, and his assistants Mary Jo Woods and John Gadow, as well as against Adams County Judge John Hudson, for much more serious felonies, including, but not limited to, Conspiracy to Commit Interstate Kidnapping, Witness Retaliation and Intimidation, Interference with Service of Process, Obstruction of Justice, Extortion under Color of Official Right, Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud, Perjury, Forgery, Removing, Concealing and Destroying Court Records, and the list goes on.They thought that as long as each law enforcement agency or judicial system protected the other, that they were untouchable. Not so. While the <b>...</b> |
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