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.