U.S. v. McGREGOR

Criminal Action No. 2:10cr186-MHT.

838 F.Supp.2d 1256 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America v. Milton E. McGREGOR, Thomas E. Coker, Larry P. Means, James E. Preuitt, Harri Anne H. Smith, and Jarrell W. Walker, Jr.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

March 14, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Cleodus Espy, III , Benjamin Joseph Espy , William Martin Espy , Melton Espy & Williams, PC, James David Martin , Robert David Segall , Shannon Lynn Holliday , Ashley Nicole Penhale , Clayton Rushing Tartt Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A. Montgomery, AL, Fred Sr. D. Gray , Walter Edgar McGowan , Gray Langford Sapp McGowan Gray Gray & Nathanson PC, Tuskegee, AL, Ruth H. Whitney , InVeritas, Little Rock, AR, Samuel H. Heldman , The Gardner Firm, Washington, DC, for Milton E. McGregor.

Stewart Davidson McKnight, III , Joel Evan Dillard , William Joseph Baxley , Baxley, Dillard, McKnight & James, Birmingham, AL, for Thomas E. Coker.

Glory R. McLaughlin , Stephen Wesley Shaw , William Hayes Mills , William N. Clark , Redden, Mills & Clark, Birmingham, AL, for Larry P. Means.

Ronald Wayne Wise , Law Office of Ronald W. Wise, Montgomery, AL, for James E. Preuitt.

James Woodfin Parkman, III , Joshua Logan McKeown , Richard Martin Adams , William Calvin White, II , Parkman, Adams & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Harri Anne H. Smith.

Michael Kendall Day , Peter J. Ainsworth , Barak Cohen , Brenda K. Morris , Marquest J. Meeks , Edward T. Kang , Emily Rae Woods , Eric Olshan , John Luman Smith , U.S. Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section, Washington, DC, Louis V. Franklin, Sr. , Stephen P. Feaga , U.S. Attorney's Office, Montgomery, AL, for United States of America.


OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

On the eve of the retrial in this public-corruption case, the government moved for a gag order limiting what the parties' trial teams could state to the media. Rather than adopting the government's proposed gag order, the court required all attorneys to comply with Alabama Rule of Professional Conduct 3.6, which provides guidelines for how lawyers should interact with the press during criminal trials. This...

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