Mel Reynolds?
Posted on 11/09/2014 10:06:52 AM PST by Zakeet
AUSTIN, Texas -- It has been an up-and-down week for Texas State Representative Ron Reynolds. On Tuesday, Reynolds, an attorney and Democrat representing Missouri Springs, coasted to an easy re-election, winning 66 percent of the vote against his Republican opponent. Wednesday, he was in a Montgomery County courtroom -- not to represent a client, but to face trial for 10 felony counts of "barratry," the illegal solicitation of clients by attorneys commonly referred to as "ambulance chasing." Finally, on Friday, he managed to avoid a felony conviction, but was found guilty of six misdemeanor counts for a lesser charge of "solicitation of professional employment."
As Breitbart Texas previously reported, Reynolds has had multiple ethical and legal problems since being admitted to the Texas Bar in 2000, including having his license to practice law suspended twice by the Texas Bar and a $10,000 fine by the Texas Ethics Commission for failing to file required campaign finance disclosures, which he failed to pay until after the Texas Attorney General sued him to collect and the Comptroller placed a "warrant hold" on his state reimbursement checks. These problems, coupled with his lack of legislative accomplishments, led Texas Monthly to brand him one of the "Worst Legislators of 2013."
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Maybe he should be sentenced to a severe whitening. Albino grade.
This trial was in Montgomery county because that is where the alledged criminal
activities were at. This guy has been in legal troubles for several years now.
I can’t understand why he hasn’t lost his license to practice.
Houston Chronicle story:
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/State-Rep-Reynolds-convicted-of-6-counts-of-5878877.php
Thanks for the laugh. Day just got better.
OMG he’s BLACK!!! I was wondering how a person with THAT kind of record could be RE-ELECTED......well, now I know!!! Do blacks just not CARE a rat’s ass about the QUALITY of people they vote for?? White Democrats do this also, but not in the numbers that blacks do.
He was convicted of a misdemeanor. While he theoretically faces a year in jail - he will probably be sentenced to time served and released. His fine is next to nothing.
As a result, the scumbag can remain in the Texas Legislature.
Jackie. LOL! *SNORT*
I expect he will be nominated for one of odumbo’s prized position. He certainly has the credentials to serve in the current administration.
Because it would be racist to hold him to the same standards that white lawyers are held to.
How many media endorsements did he receive during the campaign? And how many will be repudiated after the election?
Mel Reynolds?
Dyslexic?
Thanks, I enjoyed that post!
Hopefully, he will be sentenced to 6 months in prison, starting December 1, 2015.
That will be just long enough to keep him behind bar for the entire 2015 session of the Texas Legislature.
The decision to overturn the conviction was made on Monday as jurors were preparing to hear the punishment phase of the trial. The only African-American member of the panel told Judge Lisa Michalk that she had learned other lawyers indicted in the case accepted a plea deal, and that she shared that information with the jury.Prosecutor Kelly Blackburn said other members of the jury denied it, but the judge determined the conviction was flawed and ordered a new trial.
Jury tampering?
-PJ
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