Lawyers asked to help judge clear debt
Fair Courts E-lert
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Author: Jimmie E. Gates
Source: Clarion Ledger
Date: 12/16/2008
Article reports that after incoming Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jim Kitchens spent "more than a half-million dollars on his campaign to unseat [Mississippi Supreme Court] Chief Justice Jim Smith in the November election," Mississippi lawyers "have been asked to help Kitchens wipe out a campaign debt of about $300,000." In an email letter sent out to lawyers in the state by the president of the Mississippi Association for Justice, formerly the state's trial lawyers association, the president asked "lawyers to participate in the volunteer phone bank fundraising effort." Sam Hall, Kitchens' campaign manager, said that "the lawyers' efforts or anyone else who contributed to Kitchens' campaign will have no influence on Kitchens' opinions on the court."