Zach and the “noise makers” – the Zach Scruggs’ Motion to Vacate Conviction slabbed: "“the government’s early story to the court that Zach Scruggs knew about an alleged scheme to bribe another judge was not true. A magistrate judge and Joey Langston, then a Booneville attorney who pleaded guilty in that scheme, say so in statements under oath”.
Now-retired prosecutor Tom Dawson, in his book “King of Torts,” says that story to the court, that Langston was going to testify to that effect, greatly increased Zach Scruggs’ peril of long prison time and deep financial consequences, should a jury have convicted him of being part of the attempted bribery of Circuit Judge Henry Lackey of Calhoun City.
That pressure on Zach Scruggs was key to his guilty plea, most informed observers and Dawson say. But we don’t learn about the sworn statements contradicting that story until this new document notes the affidavits…."
