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This was in Clayton, one of two seats (the other is Eufaula) of Barbour County, an ordinary little county that has become nationally recognized as tort hell. The lawyer was Jere Beasley, who was once the Clayton High School quarterback and twice the lieutenant governor. Now 59 but still thick as an antebellum column in the neck, Beasley has a reputation for taking the side of ordinary folk against big corporations and bringing them to their knees, lightening their pocketbooks by the millions. Now he smiled at the prospective jurors, 100 people or so; everybody knew...
...company. Said Bradford: "I come from a small community. I am sure there are folks that, if I went to high school with and they were on my jury, they might lean a little my way. Would any one of you tend to lean a little bit toward Mr. Beasley?" The judge was William Robertson, 51, a former law partner of Beasley's, and a protege in Little League baseball ("He was a hero we looked up to," the judge says of Beasley). In less than 24 hours the defendants-accused of violating state laws by requiring borrowers to take...
...David Beasley...
...food was delicious, the atmosphere was nice, and I was amazed by the quality of the service." Heather L. Beasley '97 said...
...star in a national morality play. Gunn grew up in Benton (pop. 3,800), Kentucky, where his family was active in the Church of Christ. Old classmates remember him as funny, convivial, not at all self-pitying about the brace on his withered right leg, and smart. Beverly Beasley, now an insurance agent in Benton, says, "I remember once when we were in the fifth grade, the history teacher started talking about the Constitution. David stood up and said he could recite the Bill of Rights from memory, and he proceeded to do it verbatim...