The son of big-time trial attorney Richard Scruggs followed his dad's lead in pleading guilty in federal court to felony charges related to an attempt to bribe a state judge in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.

David Zachary Scruggs pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., to one felony charge of misprision, for failing to inform federal officials about the attempt to influence the judge.

David Scruggs faces up to three years in prison, a $250,000 fine and one year of supervised release. He is expected to lose his law license as well. He was released on probation pending a sentencing hearing. No date for sentencing was set.

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