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Last Updated on Friday, 21 March 2008 01:19 Written by rslcpol Friday, 21 March 2008 01:19
As he stood at the podium Thursday to present a House bill making bribing a judge a felony, Senate Judiciary Chairman Joey Fillingane wasn’t sure what the current law said.After Sen. David Jordan, D-Greenwood, asked the question, Fillingane, R-Sumrall, said he thought it was a misdemeanor to bribe a judge and decided to look it up.
But he found there were no state laws against judicial bribery.
“Obstruction of justice only covers jurors and witnesses; it does not cover judges,” Fillingane told the Senate.
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