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    $8,500,000 Judgment Day
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    $8,500,000 Judgment Day

    By Lamon K. Griggs

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    $8,500,000 Judgment Day is a revealing and true account of what happened after a Mississippi-based Walmart employee was falsely accused by the retailer of shoplifting, and later fired. How he took on the world's number one retailer and gave them a 'country whippin' in court is only part of the story.

    Author Lamon Griggs takes us behind the clever slogans, discount clothing and saccharine greeters to give us a view of the Walmart that countless broadcast and print media sources have been reporting for years: Walmart isn't quite the good neighbor or benevolent retailer their marketing department wants us to believe they are. Griggs is neither a novelist nor an investigative journalist, but that's what makes $8,500,000 Judgment Day all the more disquieting. Griggs documents how Walmart mistreats it's employees, supports overseas manufacturing and even profiles it's customers. He immerses us completely in the Walmart culture -warts and all- without any unnecessary Walmart bashing. He's got a story to tell, and he does so in his unhurried, thoughtful southern cadence. After all, this is a former Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper who spent almost 5 years of his life and nearly lost everything to prove he did not steal a dollar and fifty cents worth of chewing tobacco.

    Very quickly, $8,500,000 Judgment Day becomes a destined-for-Hollywood-must-read guilty pleasure once we're introduced to Walmart's cadre of senior level executives, department managers, missing witnesses, hidden documents, and high-priced shark attorneys. I bet you may know some of these people. And yes, there's even a happy ending here for Griggs.

    When reading $8,500,000 Judgment Day, you'll experience chapter after chapter of an uncompromising drive to uncover and expose a culture that feeds on the weakness of people. You will get a better understanding of complete corporate dominance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateFeb 8, 2006
    ISBN9781412232067
    $8,500,000 Judgment Day
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    Lamon K. Griggs

    For 12 years Lamon Griggs was a State Trooper, training officer and instructor with the Mississippi Highway Patrol, before retiring and starting his own auto accident investigation and reconstruction company. A fixture in various state and federal courthouses, he is consistently called upon for expert testimony in accident cases. This expertise is what attracted Walmart to initially hire him as their Driver Safety Director. Griggs also serves as Court Bailiff and Security for all county Circuit and Chancery Court filings and trials. Griggs has an extensive background in law enforcement, including forensic training, narcotics enforcement, police administration and organization, law enforcement fitness, criminal law, riot control, firearms and explosives, self defense, and investigations. He has been featured and interviewed on numerous Talk Show Radio Stations and Matrix News networks across the U. S. and Canada. He receives numerous guest invitations weekly from various news and entertainment media.

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      $8,500,000 Judgment Day - Lamon K. Griggs

      © Copyright 2005 Lamon Griggs.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval

      system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

      recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Note for Librarians: a cataloguing record for this book that includes Dewey Decimal

      Classification and US Library of Congress numbers is available from the Library and

      Archives of Canada. The complete cataloguing record can be obtained from their online

      database at:

      www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/index-e.html

      ISBN 1-4120-4889-3

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      Contents

      DEDICATION

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER 1

      I HAVE A JOB

      CHAPTER 2

      THEN CAME WAL-MART

      CHAPTER 3

      A NEW BEGINNING

      CHAPTER 4

      BOY, WHAT CLOUT

      CHAPTER 5

      SAM BOWS OUT

      CHAPTER 6

      NO CONSCIENCE

      CHAPTER 7

      SEX DISCRIMINATION

      CHAPTER 8

      THE SMOKING GUN

      CHAPTER 9

      WAL-MART PROFITS FROM DEATH

      CHAPTER 10

      TIME TO SPEAK UP

      CHAPTER 11

      AND SO IT WAS

      CHAPTER 12

      MY TIME HAS EXPIRED

      CHAPTER 13

      CLOUT WITH STATE GOVERNMENT

      CHAPTER 14

      FOUR MORE YEARS OF WAL-MART EXCUSES

      CHAPTER 15

      SEPTEMBER 11, 2002—THE TRIAL

      CHAPTER 16

      THE VERDICT

      CHAPTER 17

      WAL-MART BEGS

      CHAPTER 18

      SHOPPERS BEWARE

      DEDICATION

      TO MY WONDERFUL CHILDREN, WHO SUPPORTED

      THEIR DAD DURING THE MOST EMBARRASSING AND

      HUMILIATING YEARS OF MY LIFE.

      TO THE REST OF MY FAMILY, WHO WERE THE ONES THAT

      SHARED WITH ME, LADONNA, AND THE CHILDREN, THE

      GUT-WRENCHING PAIN AND ANGUISH THAT WAL-MART

      CAUSED ME TO SUFFER.

      TO ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS, WHO ALWAYS GAVE ME

      THAT SUPPORTIVE PAT ON THE BACK FOR TAKING ON

      WAL-MART’S TOP CRONIES AND CHEAP LAWYERS.

      TO ALL CURRENT AND FORMER WAL-MART EMPLOYEES

      WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO STAND UP AND TELL WAL-

      MART THEY WERE WRONG. TO THOSE SAME EMPLOYEES

      WHO REFUSED TO ALLOW WAL-MART TO CHANGE THEIR

      LIVES BY THREATS AND COERCION.

      TO ALL OF YOU WHO READ THIS BOOK AND HOPEFULLY

      HEED THE WARNING I IMPOSE UPON YOU FOR BELIEVING

      THAT WAL-MART IS A GOOD AND HONEST NEIGHBOR.

      TO MY MOM AND DAD, THOUGH BOTH DECEASED, FOR

      GIVING ME THE PROPER RAISING EVERYONE EXPECTS. FOR

      THEIR KNOWLEDGE, THEIR DISCIPLINE, THEIR LOVE. TO

      MY BROTHER LEO, ALSO DECEASED, WHO WAS SMALL IN

      STATURE AND BIG IN HEART AND SPIRIT.

      I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH.

      INTRODUCTION

      This is a true story of a former Wal-Mart truck driver who was falsely accused of shoplifting a pouch of tobacco and fired from his job. I, Lamon Griggs, was that driver. I worked two weeks after the incident happened and investigated, then fired although nothing changed over a two week period, other than it went from one pouch of tobacco to two pouches. Never mind that I had over nine hundred dollars in my pocket at the time this occurred. As you will see, the motive for Wal-Mart’s actions were the result of a comment I made to a brash Loss Prevention supervisor after he made a bad impression with me by suggesting I stole from Wal-Mart. Then he denied making such allegations and/or my response to him afterwards.

      Wal-Mart unknowingly chose the wrong person to pick on this time. It took over 4 years for Wal-Mart to release the name of a very important witness for me, an elderly door greeter, whom I suppose Wal-Mart was hoping would pass on by the time a trial was set. Although the door greeter was involved, she was never questioned. And Wal-Mart Loss Prevention denied that I ever spoke to her, but it happened that I remembered her name. It took 5 years and a trial to determine who ultimately made the terminating decision, as we found during the trial. At trial, the person who had told everyone he had nothing to do with it, finally admitted to it. And his answer for not disclosing why it was such a secret that he was the master mind was, sometimes we feel it’s better for the fired employee not to know. It took 5 years and a trial to obtain the original investigative report which could have exonerated me of any shoplifting allegation.

      This report was surprisingly discovered through a master of employee abuse, Attorney Jim Waide.

      Wal-Mart knew of, but failed to disclose, this report during discovery, an abuse of the system which Wal-Mart is fined and sanctioned over and over.

      This book outlines my life, immediately prior to becoming a Wal-Mart employee, the terrible employee treatment and immoral business practices experiences of Wal-Mart, a jury verdict of 8.5 million dollars against Wal-Mart for its’ bad decisions and business practices, and what occurs after the verdict that Wal-Mart states shocks the conscience.

      My attorneys were Mr. Luther Fisher and Mr. Jim Waide of Waide & Associates, Tupelo, MS, and Mr. John Fox of the Fox Law Firm, Houston, MS. William (Bill) Luckett of The Luckett Law Firm, Clarksdale, MS and Lorrie Ridder of The Rossie, Luckett, Parker & Laughlin Law Firm in Memphis, TN represented Wal-Mart in their defense. Though unsuccessful in their efforts, Bill Luckett is one of the best defense lawyers in this part of the world.

      Courage and pride motivated this lawsuit. I was always taught and reminded that right was right and wrong was wrong, no matter what the circumstances. I am confident that I have successfully passed this belief on to my children.

      CHAPTER 1

      I HAVE A JOB

      BEFORE WAL-MART CAME INTO MY LIFE, I WAS A TWELVE YEAR VETERAN WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY PATROL, SPECIALIZING IN ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION & INVESTIGATION. I WAS STATIONED IN CHICKASAW COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, WHERE I WAS BORN, RAISED, AND SET ROOTS FOR MY OWN FAMILY. I WAS A PROUD STATE TROOPER, DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH EVERY ASPECT OF THE DEPARTMENT, FROM EVERYDAY OPERATIONS TO LOBBYING BEFORE OUR STATE LEGISLATURE. YES, I FELT GOOD ABOUT EVERYTHING, ALWAYS POSITIVE, AND ALWAYS SEEKING OUT TO HELPING OTHERS.

      I WORE MANY HATS WITH THE HIGHWAY PATROL. I SERVED AS ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, FIELD TRAINING OFFICER, RECRUITER, AND DISTRICT ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION OFFICER. I WAS AN INSTRUCTOR IN SELF-DEFENSE AND INSTRUCTED STOP AND APPROACH CLASSES AT THE MISSISSIPPI LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING ACADEMY. I WAS A CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR IN HORIZONTAL GAZE NOSTAGMUS AND PRESSURE POINT CONTROL TACTICS. I WAS CLASSIFIED AS AN EXPERT IN ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION/INVESTIGATIONS AND TESTIFIED AS SUCH IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS. I SERVED ON THE PATROLS’ ACCIDENT REVIEW COMMITTEE. I CO-FOUNDED AND BECAME FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE TROOPERS’ ASSOCIATION.

      I JOINED THE RANKS OF THE HIGHWAY PATROL IN 1978, AND WILL FOREVER CHERISH AND APPRECIATE THAT OPPORTU-

      NITY. IN 1980, I WAS SELECTED AS OUTSTANDING YOUNG LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER BY MY HOMETOWN JAYCEES. IN 1986, I WAS SELECTED TROOPER OF THE YEAR BY THE EXCHANGE CLUBS OF AMERICA.

      A MASS RETIREMENT OCCURRED WITHIN THE RANKS OF THE PATROL IN 1987, STRIPPING THE PATROL OF SEASONED TROOPERS WHO KNEW THE ROPES. I WAS SELECTED TO TEMPORARILY OVERSEE THE OPERATIONS OF MY NINE COUNTY TROOP UNTIL PROMOTIONAL TESTING COULD BE HELD. I WAS A MORAL BUILDER. I KNEW WHAT MOTIVATED OTHERS. I KNEW HOW TO APPEAL TO THE YOUNGER TROOPERS, YET HOW TO PROPERLY REPRIMAND WHEN NECESSARY. I WAS FAIR BUT FIRM. BEING SO INVOLVED WITH THE HIGHWAY PATROL, MY INTEGRITY WAS NOT ONCE QUESTIONED.

      AS AN EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE TROOPERS’ ASSOCIATION, I SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME WITH OUR LEGISLATURE, NOT ONLY TO LOBBY FOR PAY INCREASES OR EQUIPMENT, BUT TO FOLLOW LEGISLATION PERTAINING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. I WAS BENEFICIAL IN ADOPTING A MUCH NEEDED UNIFORM ACCIDENT REPORT FOR ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO USE. I WAS BENEFICIAL IN BROADENING THE POWERS OF

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