Texas lawmaker freed from jail in time for session

kxan ^ | Jan. 4, 2019 | Jodie Barr

[bgill]

A Texas lawmaker was released from a Texas jail at 11:34 p.m.Thursday after serving only four months of a 12-month jail sentence. Rep. Ron Reynolds, a Missouri City Democrat, was convicted of five counts of barratry in 2015 and sentenced to one year in jail. Reynolds won re-election to the Texas House of Representatives in November to represent District 27. He was unopposed in that race, but still managed to gather 47,305 votes. Reynolds was booked into the county jail on Sept. 7 and was supposed to serve a year-long sentence... Since the convictions were misdemeanors, Reynolds did not have to resign from office. Had Reynolds not been released early, he would have missed the entire first year of the 86th legislative session, which reconvenes in Austin next Tuesday.

[bgill]

A demonrat. Isn't that special.

[bgill]

That followed by this Republican stepping down after a sex scandal:

“After scandal, Georgetown senator gives up leadership role Schwertner steps down as chair of Senate Health and Human Services Committee” - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/after-scandal-georgetown-senator-gives-up-leadership-role/1687031439

[morphing libertarian]

five counts of barratry

[Libloather]

Just trying to make an honest buck -

Barratry is most commonly applied to an attorney who attempts to bring about a lawsuit that will be profitable to her or him. Barratry is an offense both at Common Law and under some state statutes. The broader common-law crime has been limited by certain statutes. An attorney who is overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation might be guilty of common barratry under a particular statute. The requirement for the crime of barratry is that repeated or persistent acts of litigation are performed by the accused. Barratry is generally a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment. In the case of an attorney, disbarment is the usual punishment. Since few cases have been prosecuted, barratry is considered by the legal community at large to be an archaic crime. This is particularly true today due to a highly litigious atmosphere.

[vette6387]

https://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/State-Rep-Ron-Reynolds-released-from-Montgomery-13508164.php

A Black DemoRat

Filed lawsuits for people he didn’t represent! I have to hand it to Black crooks, they are “creative!” This guy is right up there with the Black lawya in North Carolina whose billboard ads said “just because you did it, doesn’t mean you’re guilty!”

[morphing libertarian]

thanx

[rockinqsranch]

Barratry: “Barratry is most commonly applied to an attorney who attempts to bring about a lawsuit that will be profitable to her or him.”

That definition would cover all Democrats, so why is this guy different?

[Pontiac]

Since few cases have been prosecuted, barratry is considered by the legal community at large to be an archaic crime. This is particularly true today due to a highly litigious atmosphere.

Mostly because Democrats have come to dominate the courts, the law schools and the bar in general.

Civil lawyers are such huge contributers to the Democrat Party bringing charges of barrity against a lawyer is practically unthinkable.

To rephrase what you said; after all it just a guy trying to make a dishonest buck.

[hadaclueonce]

Great/s
Texas lawmakers meet for 90 days every two years.
I predict bathroom laws, plastic grocery bags and saving mother Erf will be on their plates.

[Chode]

don't even have to look...

[Pining_4_TX]

The fact that he was elected anyway shows the futility of Republicans trying to get the black vote in some areas. They will vote D no matter what. Even though Trump has produced the best economy for everyone, especially minorities, they still vote D.

[Freee-dame]

Remember Obama claiming that the improved economy was due to him, not to Trump. A whole lot of Americans probably saw Obama making that claim (a complete lie) played over and over on TV and believed it.

[eastforker]

Ambulance chaser.

[vette6387]

I've posted this before, but I think that Conservative Texans should be very concerned about the direction of their population as well. Being a life-long Californian, if you had asked me when Ronald Reagan was our governor and we were #1 in just about any measure you'd care to mention, that we would be RAT Central today, I would have laughed in your face. As I read here Texans posting that “it can't happen here,” and I look at your population graphics, it looks all too familiar. You already have at least four major population centers under complete RAT control ( i.e. Houston, DFW, Austin and SA, where a huge, but not yet majority of your people reside), coupled with Mexican RAT-run counties along the Rio Grande at least two deep (what with your 300 odd counties, some of which are smaller than my three-car garage). And from what I read, the “citizens” along the river don't want any border wall ( I surmise since they are citizens of Mexico first and Texas second, if at all).
And I can tell you that once the ball really gets rolling, you will be surprised at just how quickly the transformation from red to blue takes place. I hope you can find a way to save your state, but it won't be easy. And the kicker is that Texas stands in the way of the RATs taking irreversible control of the Federal Government, so you can bet they are working overtime there to subvert it to Marxism.

[Sequoyah101]

I thought if you are a convicted felon you couldn’t....

Never mind. That is so old fashioned. So yesterday.

[deport]

Texas is only 3 governors removed from a democrat.
Ann Richards was succeeded by GW Bush in Jan. 1995.

[Theodore R.]

Yes, and the Beto surge proves all you are saying. He would have won without those pesky little rural counties, many of whom have shrinking populations.

[Theodore R.]

It’s misdemeanors, not felonies.

[Hot Tabasco]

There’s a reason why “Lawyers and Attorneys” is one of the largest sections in the Yellow Pages......

[Pining_4_TX]

I agree, and it’s frightening. Once Texas goes blue, there won’t be another Republican president no matter how much they pander to blacks and Hispanics.