Tag: Judge Mike Mills

Over the wire or under the wig

Give Judge Mills credit for redefining the meaning of a bug in the system with his comments on judicial ethics and earwigging on internet blogs – and letting us know he reads at least one blog.

Mills said if he doesn’t read the comments on a certain blog, someone in his office is bound to print it out and leave a copy on his desk.

Now, that comment not only caught my eye, it put a bug in my ear that started scratching when I read the story Sop posted yesterday – a bug to understand who in his office would copy blog posts and comments and leave them on his desk and why.

I found the answer – or at least one answer – in the Oxford Eagle story about the event.

“I know if something is said about someone local, and if I don’t read it, my clerk will make sure I see it,” Mills said. “It’s going to get copied and put on a judge’s desk. And I think people know that and I believe some write comments to influence the judges.

I suppose lawyer-people know that; but I’m not a lawyer. What I do know, however, is that Judge Mills and Judge Biggers have their offices in the Court’s Oxford office – where “local” means Scruggs, Lackey, Tollison and a host of others with various connections to USA v Scruggs. Continue reading “Over the wire or under the wig”

Mark you calendar – Tuesday ethics panel at UM Law

Judge Henry Lackey – who needs no introduction here – will join Oxford attorney Tom Freeland and Judge Michael P. “Mike” Mills in a discussion of judicial ethics hosted by the University of Mississippi School of Law. The panel discussion will be held in room 108 at 4:00 on Tuesday. (h/t folo for the reminder)

Freeland, not to be confused with his brother who also practices law in Oxford, is the popular NMC of folo-fame whose father practiced law with Judge Lackey. Mills, by the way, is also a talented writer and author of Tombigbee Tales.

The discussion offers a “live demonstration” of judicial ethics, as well as what’s certain to be an interesting and lively conversation – definitely no “bull” much less a mention of beef! Freeland represents indicated Georgia businessman Robert Moultrie in USA v Moultrie that will be tried in Judge Mills courtroom in August.

If you’re in the area, be there or be square – or better yet, be there and then go to the Square and enjoy Oxford.