Post by Logan on Dec 21, 2016 17:42:34 GMT -6
There might be a bribery conspiracy in the Hinds County justice system, and even an admitted member of it said he did not know how "deep it goes."
Tuesday morning's cross-examination of former Assistant District Attorney Ivon Johnson in the trial of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith began with a provocative line of questioning from defense attorney Jim Waide.
Waide asked Johnson, who testified yesterday about the contents of several tapes he secretly made of Smith over the last year he knew the names of the other members of the bribery conspiracy he pleaded guilty to in federal court. On Monday, Johnson said he took money from Marietta Harris years ago in exchange for lowering bonds himself, a fact he told Smith about before he turned evidence over to the FBI in February of this year.
However, when Waide asked him for more names, Johnson said he did not know any of the other conspirators in the bribery scheme.
Read more: www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/dec/21/conspiracies-grow-da-smith-trial/
Tuesday morning's cross-examination of former Assistant District Attorney Ivon Johnson in the trial of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith began with a provocative line of questioning from defense attorney Jim Waide.
Waide asked Johnson, who testified yesterday about the contents of several tapes he secretly made of Smith over the last year he knew the names of the other members of the bribery conspiracy he pleaded guilty to in federal court. On Monday, Johnson said he took money from Marietta Harris years ago in exchange for lowering bonds himself, a fact he told Smith about before he turned evidence over to the FBI in February of this year.
However, when Waide asked him for more names, Johnson said he did not know any of the other conspirators in the bribery scheme.
Read more: www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/dec/21/conspiracies-grow-da-smith-trial/