Essentially the same accusation -- except that this time Ronnie Earle got a newly empanelled grand jury to ifix the flawed indictment issued last week, using a new grand jury that had not heard most of the evidence provided to the old grand jury.

Why do this?

The new indictment comes hours after DeLay's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the first case. That motion was based on the argument that the conspiracy charge against DeLay was based on a law that wasn't effective until 2003, the year after the alleged money transfers.

“Since the indictment charges no offense, and since you have professed not to be politically motivated in bringing this indictment, I request that you immediately agree to dismiss the indictment so that the political consequences can be reversed,” attorney Dick DeGuerin wrote in a letter to Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.

The judge who will preside in DeLay's case is out of the country on vacation and couldn't rule on the motion. Other state district judges declined to rule on the motion in his place, said Colleen Davis, a law clerk to Austin attorney Bill White, also represents DeLay.

Ronnie Earle is such an incompetent partisan hack that he could not even get the law or the facts correct the first time he managed to get an indictment (out of six grand juries that heard evidence). Now he rushed a new grand jury into an indictment that is not any more substantial, but does at least cite the correct statutes.

When the judge gets back in the country, it is time for these charges to be dismissed with extreme prejudice.

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1 Yeah. Just heard about that. Totally disgusting. 7 different grand jury just to try and level a charge against Tom DeLay? That smells bad as a freshly dropped manure.

What's more, it's funny how Democrats are throwing around that Liberal Ronnie Earle is non-partisan because he indicted 12 Democrats and 3 Republicans during his 28 years as D.A.? Does that mean Democrats break Texas laws with a frequency 4 times greaters than Republicans?



Look at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Earle

Interesting people he tried to indict, even among those who sat together for lunch.

Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) Members David Bradley (Republican), Bob Offutt (Republican), and Joe Bernal (Democrat) - Earle initiated a criminal investigation against three SBOE members in 2002. Earle accused the board members, who are elected from districts in Texas, of violating the state's "Open Meetings" law when the three met for lunch at a restaurant in Austin, Texas on the day of an SBOE meeting. The law requires a public meeting when elected bodies assemble in a quorum of three or more persons to conduct business. The SBOE members responded that they were simply eating lunch. Earle turned the investigation over to Travis County Attorney Ken Oden, who in turn indicted the members on misdemeanor counts.

Eating at a cafe for lunch is called a quorum? Yet, this cafe was a public place. Mr. Earle sounds much too eager and probably wanted to punish the Democrat who ate lunch with two other Republicans? Interesting to say the least.

Posted by: mcconnell at Mon Oct 3 12:39:30 2005 (CQ3Yp)

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