Posted on 10/05/2005 4:23:39 PM PDT by Pikamax
This is nothing short of amazing. For the Austin paper to turn against Earle, things must be very bad for him. I suspect the backlash will be worse than any potential short-term gain the indictments obtained.
We'll see.
But this is backlash in Earle's backyard. The paper basically is saying that he screwed up, it looks terrible, and either Earle comes through with the conviction or he's done.
No kidding. I can't believe the AAS has drawn first blood on Earle. This has to be the mother of all boondoggles. I wonder if we (citizens of Travis county) will ever be reimbersed for his stupidity. Or if the Texas Attorney General might have somthing to say about this.
At the very best, little ronnie will soon find out that his powers to disrupt the national GOP have dropped to zero.
I just did jury duty for a civil case in August. It took 11 hours just to empanel the jury from the pool. There is no way you can select a jury, go over 3 years worth of evidence, and get 12 folks to agree on this in 1 day without some kind of shady deal.
My guess is Earle organized a willing jury over the weekend, got them to the courthouse Monday morning, they sat around and had a good ole time until about 4:00 oclock, then returned said indictment.
Thanks for that info. So that means they reviewed 3 years of evidence, which no doubt included hours of video depositions from who knows who, and should have included live testimony from witnesses, and reviewed all the facts in one afternoon to reach a 12 person conclusion. NO I DON'T THINK SO. Those things just don't happen that fast under normal circumstances.
We'll see. The problem is that the Texas Constitution makes the state enforcement powers very weak in comparison to other states. The real power lies at the county level.
When we need a bust of corrupt county officials, we need a federal angle so that the FBI can be brought in. The state simply isn't permitted to do it.
Don't think for a moment that Tom DeLay doesn't know this.
Wow Dog Gone, you sure know more about this stuff than I do. I'm just speaking from recent jury duty experience. I sure hope this comes back to bite Earle on the keester. I for one would be willing to do a Freep at the courthouse aimed at Earle. I hope your right about the eventuall outage of ratscapades regarding this.
He's not even a good attorney. In reality, he's a politician with a law license using his political office to manipulate the criminal justice system.
It's beyond the pale. Even those who hate Tom DeLay can see what is happening.
Yes and many will get fed up with Democrats and leave the party.( Karl Rove must be behind all of this. )
bttt
Is it possible to assemble a grand jury of yellow-dog rats only who have sworn to take down conservatives without leaving an obvious trail?
The news is that the money changing happened early in 2002 and DeLays lawyers says the statute against the supposed crime was not passed until sept 2003. Sounds like Malicious prosecution if they have that on the books in Texas.
I don't know the answer to that, but maybe Dog Gone will.
I would guess it would be a hard trail to hide.
Sounds like a big time can of Freep needs to be ripped open down at the courthouse. I'm asking around now.
And should be disbarred forth with so that he can have the legacy he so richly deserves. Small footnotes in history books!
Seems to me he is the one who needs to be investigated. Until the last few days I thought that democrats were the most mean spirited people on earth, and were out to destroy republicans by any means. Now I see that they are not alone at this.
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