Posted on 01/10/2011 12:34:04 PM PST by Beaten Valve
Tom DeLay sentenced to 3-years in prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
He should do the five and tell them to stuff the ten years’ probation. With a leash like that on him, he’ll be useless for a decade after his release on the three [it would seem that the sentences would run concurrently, since the convictions are based on a common transaction-so that would mean two extra on the three, and no one looking over his shoulder for the ten].
Thanks, Deb. We are really devolving to a nation that no longer has justice.
I came to this realization the day that O.J. Simpson was pronounced “Not Guilty” over 15 years ago....
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/bpp/exec_clem/exec_clem.html
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WHAT IS CLEMENCY?
The governor has the authority to grant clemency upon the written recommendation of a majority of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Clemency includes full pardons, conditional pardons, pardons based on innocence, commutations of sentence, and emergency medical reprieves. In capital cases, the Board considers applications for commutation of sentence to life in prison and for a reprieve of execution. If the Board recommends clemency in a death penalty case, the governor may grant commutation or reprieve. The governor can also grant a one-time thirty-day reprieve of execution in these cases.
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You're asking the wrong person. Ask the judge and jury, Sherlock.
If what you say is true, then Delay can appeal and win.
You can’t be tried for a crime which wasn’t a crime when you did it.
They jury couldn't explain it either, Skippy.
Six grand juries turned the case down until Ronnie Earle tricked one into an indictment.
This conviction will eventually be overturned, and the only thing that will have been accomplished is the knee-capping of an effective Republican.
You Lefties don't like effective Republicans.
You're mighty loose with labels, Bucko. Not having sold my soul to a political party and blindly follow their doctrine, I have the luxury to evaluate each one based on fact and not bias based on mind numbing blind allegiance.
A crook is still a crook like a mindless sheeple is still a sheeple, baaaaaaa. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Buckwheat.
You're asking the wrong person. Ask the judge and jury, Sherlock.
I used to believe that the Latvian Forest Brothers (meža brāļi) were valiant freedom fighters, but now you've explained succinctly that the rightful government, the Russians ("their judge and jury") were correct when they called them scum, bandits and illegals.
The meža brāļi apparently were rightfully exterminated...
The meža brāļi apparently were rightfully exterminated...
Must be a full moon tonight. The GOP operatives and their lunatic vassals are out tonight.
Go ahead and wallow in your ignorance and continue your tasks of instigators and agents provocateurs,'E. Pluribus Unum' for the GOP and 'an amused spectator' for the FR Communist contingent.
It's really not all that difficult to unmask you guys. Relics of history is your next classification.
Intimately.
Augusts Bergmanis and Vidvuds Sveics were Latvian heroes and patriots, working with the rightful authorities to round up and exterminate Tom Delay-like Latvian criminals & scum...
Thanks for bringing me around to the proper term used by Texas. Good to know.
It seems you have also pointed out that he cannot grant a clemency without the majority of the board approving. That’s interesting. I thought all chief executives (governors) were able to grant pardons.
I guess it would depend on if the crime was federal or not though.
LOL - first time I had a Freeper n00bie call me a Commie...
Well, it's obvious where your mind wanders. I will not engage in a discussion with perverts, so why don't you stick your Pluribus in your Unum and go back to watching kiddy porn.
I’m sure he’ll appeal. Somebody will help him out.
I guess it would depend on if the crime was federal or not though.
Texas state law.... and these two convictions are violations of Texas State Criminal statutes not Federal law. One charge against DeLay was a violation of Texas State Election Code but that was thrown out by the Judge.
“What did he REALLY do, or is this just a Kangaroo Kourt prosecution?”
I heard he did something that was illegal BEFORE it was illegal, but I could be wrong.
Actually, it is the DA who should be in jail.
>> Explain the crime he committed, Sherlock.
Exactly. I think it’s therapeutic for some to see their own fall down.
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