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A New Memoir Revisits the Leverett Case and the Long Shadow of Abuse

James Bullard, January 22, 2022

Phyllis Hain’s memoir, Diamond in the Dark, returns to one of Mobile’s most sensational cases of the early 1980s and traces how a childhood of violence shaped the choices of a lifetime.

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Local News A historic courthouse building, evoking the federal prosecutions of Mobile officials in the 1970s and 1980s

Son of the Late Lambert Mims Offers a Dissenting History of Mobile’s Corruption Years

James Bullard, July 28, 2009

In a lengthy letter, Dale Mims disputed a published account of Mobile’s era of political indictments, arguing the prosecutions of the 1970s and 1980s were shaped by displaced money and federal politics.

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