The Northern Review

The Scruggs Matter may provide food for understanding and speculation about the Oedipus Complex.
The Oedipus Complex has to do with the love - hate relationship of the child to the father or father figure. Freud, as I recall, speculated that the boy child wanted to replace the father in the affections of the mother. Maybe, [...]

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Judge Biggers does not seem to comport himself while acting from the bench with any sort of true detachment, objectivity, impartiality, understanding or compassion.
He seems to have taken the Scruggs matter personally. He seems intent on doing harm rather than doing justice.
Reading the transcript of the Dick Scruggs sentencing hearing one gets the impression Judge [...]

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It is interesting and perhaps telling that the bribe was proposed by a Mississippi judge. A judge who was earwigged by a close friend. A judge who then took his friend into his confidence and then, when the friend was hitting rock bottom financially and emotionally, proposed that his friend pay him a bribe - [...]

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