Henry Espy decided not to seek re-election after more than two decades in office.
McMillian was hoping to win the office being vacated by Mayor Henry Espy Jr.
Espy's son, state Rep. Chuck Espy, and Luckett were among the other well-known candidates in the race.
Douglas has been key to the prosecution's case that Espy illegally accepted gifts.
The likeliest include Tyson Foods, company spokesman Archie Schaffer, lobbyist Jack Williams (in a new indictment) and of course Espy.
Prosecutors called Lawrence Busboon, ex-president of Sun Diamond Growers in California, to testimony about the activities of lobbyist Richard Douglas, a longtime friend of Espy.
Smaltz was asked to determine whether former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy took favors from companies, including chicken-processing giant Tyson Foods, that had business before his department.
Legal sources close to Espy's defense team told CNN that prosecutors have laid "not a finger on him, " as the seventh day of the trial continues.
He has snagged plea bargains or guilty verdicts in eight cases, including the conviction of Sun-Diamond Growers, a California raisin-and-nut cooperative, for, among other things, giving Espy luggage, meals and transportation.
Attorneys for those parties say they expect no letup from the man who has given his staff watches that bear his name, the independent-counsel seal and the words IN RE MICHAEL ESPY.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Fed pursued a hawkish doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against any inflationary pressures it could espy, even if they did not yet show up in headline consumer prices.
Hiram Eastland, a lawyer representing former Espy aide Ron Blackley, says Smaltz's lawyers put Blackley's wife on the stand and tried to get her to testify against her husband despite the long-standing marital-privilege doctrine.
The notion of modifying the weather dates back at least to the eighteen-thirties, when the American meteorologist James Pollard Espy became known as the Storm King, for his (prescient but widely ridiculed) proposals to stimulate rain by selectively burning forests.
Melbourne's St Kilda has stayed true to its Victorian pleasure palace roots, with a melancholy pier to stroll by day, and bars, restaurants and live music at pubs like The Prince (2 Acland St) and the Espy (11 The Esplanade) for after dark.
In March a federal judge threw out Smaltz's case against Espy's brother Henry, saying the government didn't have enough evidence to prove that he had defrauded federal election authorities or lied to get a bank loan when he tried to win Michael's old House seat.
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