By: JIMMIE E. GATES

A judge will decide whether all documents from an investigation to determine if then-Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter was improperly influenced during a civil case by former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters should be kept confidential.

Hinds County Circuit Judge Swan Yerger also will decide if some documents from the investigation can be given to federal prosecutors or other government officials to determine if there was any criminal wrongdoing on the part of DeLaughter and Peters.

The actual lawsuit, however, has nothing to do with Peters, but is about the alleged theft of trade secrets by one of the companies' former employees.

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