UPDATE TO THE WEINER TRIAL 10-01-2009

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WANT FOUR DEFENSE LAWYERS DISQUALIFIED FROM THE CASE OF A COAHOMA COUNTY SUPERVISOR CHARGED WITH SOLICITING PROSTITUTION FROM WOMEN HE MET ON THE INTERNET. CLARKSDALE CARDIOLOGIST DOCTOR ROGER WEINER HAS PLED NOT GUILTY TO SOLICITING PROSTITUTES ACROSS STATE LINES. ON WEDNESDAY PROSECUTORS SOUGHT TO DISQUALIFY LAWYERS FROM CHAPMAN, LEWIS & SWAN IN CLARKSDALE, SAYING ONE OF THEM HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST INVOLVING A WITNESS. RALPH CHAPMAN, ONE OF THE LAWYERS, SAID THERE'S NO MERIT TO THE REQUEST AND HIS FIRM HAS REPRESENTED WIENER SINCE MAY. PROSECUTORS SAY THE WITNESS, TEENA ROWE, ONCE CONTACTED ONE OF THE FIRM'S ATTORNEYS ABOUT A DISPUTE SHE HAD WITH WEINER, HER FORMER BOSS. ROWE HAD NO COMMENT THURSDAY.