In February, Camp was tapped to preside over Smith's trial in Mobile after federal judges in southwest Alabama recused themselves because one of their colleagues was an alleged target. Smith, whose lavish lifestyle and frequent run-ins with the law drew front-page headlines, had been convicted of being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition.
Authorities contended that Smith plotted to kill the judge and prosecutor in that case, William Steele and Greg Bordenkircher, respectively.
Jurors heard taped conversations between Smith and a fellow inmate at Mobile County Metro Jail in which the defendant talked about hiring a hit man to do the job.
Eddie Smith apparently is not a sweetheart of a guy. But I long have suspected that he was set up by corrupt forces in Mobile, Alabama. Now we learn that the judge in his case is a druggie, and that's not all. Get this, from the Press-Register:
Last week's arrest of Camp represents the latest strange turn in the Smith saga. An undercover police officer, who posed as a disbarred lawyer who had contacts with a hit man and secretly recorded his jailhouse conversation with Smith, later resigned from the Daphne Police Department for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a female informant.
Gives you the warm and fuzzies about law enforcement, doesn't it?
Anyway, back to Jack T. Camp. What kind of person has been presiding over federal cases in Atlanta--and sometimes Alabama? The AJC provides the ugly details:
Camp's relationship with the stripper, who had a federal conviction related to a drug trafficking case, began last spring, according to the affidavit. The two would meet when Camp paid her for sex, and they would smoke marijuana and snort cocaine and take the painkiller Roxicodone together. Camp usually gave the stripper money to buy the drugs although sometimes she provided them on her own, the affidavit said. She secretly recorded Camp discussing the drug transactions.
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