Here some info about the Judge in the case and also DeLay's attorney Dick DeGuerin.
Texas is VERY different when it comes to politics. You can't get hung up in your shorts over the Dem vs Repub issue because a lot of it doesn't apply in Texas. Wasn't that long ago in Texas that there wasn't such thing as a Republican, only liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats.
ALSO, don't think for a minute that Judge Perkins is going to tolerate Ronnie Earle's misconduct in this matter. There is a LOT of Democrats in Texas that hate Ronnie Earle for Earle pissing all over the leg of the late great politician Bob Bullock.
Further, most of the media "legal experts" don't know squat about Texas politics and it legal system. Total horse dung what they are saying right now on this latest legal salvo by DeLay's attorney.
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About the Judge on the Tom DeLay Indictment Case
Judge Robert ("Bob") A. Perkins (JD-'73)
331st Judicial Criminal District Court
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/district_courts/criminal_courts/331.asp
Judge Perkins is a Democrat, but so is Dick DeGuerin. Judge Perkins donated $725 to the John Kerry Presidential Campaign in 2004. (Big spender, haa)
I posted this on another thread re DeGuerin:
FYI, DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, (one of the top criminal defense lawyers in the country) is a self-described yellow-dog Democrat who regularly votes in Democratic primaries. (Yellow-dog means these Dems would vote for a yellow-dog running on a Dem ticket before they would vote for a Repub, lol.)
Since the beginning of the 1988 election cycle, DeGuerin has contributed $15,800 to Democratic candidates, including $1,000 in 1996 to former Rep. Nick Lampson (D-Texas), who plans to challenge DeLay for his seat next fall.
DeGuerin also contributed $1,000 in 2002 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is pinning its hopes for the 2006 election on DeLay’s legal problems and their potential to taint all GOP House candidates.
In an interview, DeGuerin described himself as being “kind of raised in Austin and Democratic politics.” His father served as Lyndon Baines Johnson’s administrative assistant when the former president was a member of Congress. DeGuerin’s father later worked for the Johnson administration in the Commerce Department.
(Remember my previous post. It wasn't that long ago that there wasn't just a thing in Texas as a Republican. You were either a Liberal Dem or a Conservative Dem. Texas laws and political history are very different than the other 49 States)
Per DeGuerin: “I don’t know that I agree with [DeLay’s] politics, and I don’t have to,” DeGuerin said. “What’s happened to him is political, and I don’t agree with trying to affect the ballot box with the jury box, and that’s what Ronnie Earle is trying to do.” DeGuerin said he made his political persuasion “very clear” to DeLay and his supporters, and he said DeLay is comfortable with it.
This is an example of how good Dick DeGuerin is as a criminal attorney in Texas. If I recall correctly, Dick made $1.8 million defending Robert Durst.
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Dick takes on very weird and high visibility cases for the challenge and the ego of the cases. The last case DeGuerin won had EVERYONE in Texas and the U.S. shaking their heads, including myself. I remember Dan Abrams, on the MSNBC “The Abrams Report” could hardly contain himself during a post trial interview with four of the jurors on DeGuerin last big case win. I couldn't believe it either.
Last year, in Galveston County, DeGuerin defended Robert Durst, heir to a New York real estate fortune, who admitted killing and dismembering an unfortunate victim in Galveston. After killing the victim, Durst cut up the body and threw it into Galveston Bay. Durst was a suspect in another California killing at the time and had moved to Galveston posing as a deaf-mute woman and lived in a dingy apartment, despite his considerable wealth. At the trial, Durst testified he accidentally shot his neighbor as the two struggled for a gun. Durst said he panicked, cut up the body and dumped the pieces in the Bay, all of which were discovered except the head..
Durst jumped bail on the Galveston charge and was arrested in Pennsylvania for stealing a chicken sandwich while carrying two guns and $38,000. Bottom line, DeGuerin got Durst acquitted on the capital murder charge, on the grounds of self-defense, but they nailed Durst for the guns and tampering with evidence - that would be dismembering the corpse. They let him slide on the chicken sandwich charge. I swear, I'm not making up any of this. Net-net Durst got seven months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, plus a $30,000 fine.
That's how good Dick DeGuerin is in a criminal trial.
DeGuerin-Durst at Trial in Galveston Country.
From the Texas libs William Wayne Justice, Mark White, Jim Mattox, et ilk, who ruined the finest prison system in the Country, to Annie (who should have been running a truck stop), Hightower, Dogget, et pukes I get sick of Austin.
This city is a nest of libs fed by the U of Texas ultra leftist professors and their spoon fed kids.