Ed Reinecke, who resigned as California's lieutenant governor after a perjury conviction, dies at 92

Los Angeles Times ^ | December 25, 2016 | Cindy Chang

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Ed Reinecke, the California lieutenant governor who resigned after being convicted of perjury in a Watergate-era scandal, died Saturday in Laguna Hills.

He was 92 and died of natural causes, said his son, Mark Reinecke...

Reinecke was a protege of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan...

The conviction was eventually overturned because of a technicality: the Senate Judiciary Committee had not officially published a rule permitting a one-man quorum, and the special Watergate prosecutor had not established that more than one senator attended the hearing...

After Reinecke’s downfall, Reagan remained loyal to his former lieutenant, soliciting funds to help him pay his legal bills...

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[Gay State Conservative]

The reason why the conviction was overturned was described as a “technicality”.I consider a “technicality” to be a document filed too late or a semi-colon having been omitted on a document.This dismissal seems to have been far more important than that.

[EveningStar]

You’re correct. The writer is editorializing.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Perjury charges are only for Republicans. They were looking to stop him from succeeding Reagan as Governor of California and installing the execrable Moonbeam. And now look where the state is today.

RIP.

[Rufii]

I recall at the time hearing that the jury that convicted Reinecke was all-black and all-Democrat.