Mississippi super trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs, a man who knows his way around the law, is going to plead the 5th if asked to provide testimony in a lawsuit involving himself, and Democrat A.G. Jim Hood. All those trial lawyer donors to Jim Hood, all those cases for Dickie Scruggs…the wheels are starting to come off this thing for these boys.

Plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, facing corruption and contempt charges in unrelated cases, will invoke the Fifth Amendment if forced to testify in a federal lawsuit involving Mississippi’s attorney general, according to court records.Scruggs is scheduled for a deposition Friday in a lawsuit filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. The insurer accuses Attorney General Jim Hood of using the threat of a criminal investigation to force settlements in civil litigation over Hurricane Katrina damages.

In court documents filed Wednesday, State Farm said Scruggs and Hood were conspirators in an “extortion conspiracy.”

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