Posted on 06/05/2024 7:06:01 AM PDT by libstripper
June 4 (Reuters) - A Texas prosecutor asked the state's highest criminal court on Tuesday to reverse a pardon granted by Governor Gregg Abbott to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder and sentenced to prison for fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester. Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, a Democrat whose office tried the murder case, said he asked the state Court of Criminal Appeals for a special order, called a writ of mandamus, to overturn Abbott's action.
Garza told a news briefing in the state capital of Austin that Abbott, a Republican, violated the separation of powers doctrine of the state's constitution and failed to follow proper legal procedures in the way he pardoned Daniel Perry last month. Abbott's office did not immediately respond to Reuters' request seeking comment on Garza's move. Perry, convicted last year, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting Garrett Foster, a U.S. Air Force veteran, in July 2020 during the protest against racial injustice following the George Floyd killing by police in Minneapolis months earlier.
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Hey garza......🖕
Thanks for keeping us updated- the left sure are filled with revenge- they won’t stop- I hope Abbott gets to tell them to,go pound sand
All law against thee, and no laws for me.
All persecution against thee, no arrests for me.
MLK was only arrested 29 times by racist local Democrat party law enforcement, and most of those charges were later dropped. Trump was persecuted and convicted of 34 felonies for writing one check to his lawyer.
False. The governor has the power of pardon. There is a committee he sends the case to first. The committee made its recommendation (which is non binding) and then Abbot pardoned him.
He never should have been prosecuted in the first place. There is zero chance he would have been charged anywhere else in Texas other than the blue shithole that is Austin.
In fact, there was another Klantifa member who shot at Perry’s car as he drove away. That guy should have been charged with attempted murder. He has no claim of self defense like Perry.
Is there some way for the state of Texas to remove a rogue prosecutor? If so, they should remove this guy. He’s a disgrace.
“We’ll stomp our feet and hold our breath!”
I think we could stop with, the governor has the power to pardon.
Would you happen to know if Texas law requires the governor to have a committee at all? Noted that the committee’s rec is non-binding. But is the governor required to have a committee? Certainly the historic common law country right for the chief exec to pardon has been unfettered. It’s just an inherent right, part of the whole checks and balances / separation of powers set up.
Reuters made sure to say that the BLM protester who was shot was a veteran, BUT strangely did not mention that Daniel Perry was a U.S. Army Sergeant at the time.
Oh, Reuters, what leftists you are.
Doesn’t a governor have the power to pardon?
Can a TX court infringe on that? Separation of powers?
I believe Texas does require a committee review the case and make a recommendation first. Abbot said that was the only thing preventing him from pardoning Perry sooner.
...Garza is about a left-wing as you could possibly get...it does not surprise me....this fellow acted in self-defense, pure and simple....this is all bulls**t on steroids....
That’s already been done.
“He never should have been prosecuted in the first place.”
Disagree with your post in one way, what happened to Perry was a “persecution,” not a legitimate “prosecution.”
...indeed...!... “...in July 2020 during the protest against racial injustice following the George Floyd killing by police in Minneapolis months earlier.”...
This miserable excuse of a human being was NOT killed by police; he was already dying from an overdose of numerous drugs and was not “murdered” as so many in the media still say...
First thing I’d do to answer this suit is file a motion to dismiss as Garza has no standing.
> He is not harmed.
> He is not involved in the Texas clemency process
> He’s not even a state official.
And claiming separation of powers?? On what basis? This is an executive branch decision: wholly and completely.
Nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled. Someday we will care about the truth the way the left cares about its lies, and only then will we begin to win.
“Reuters made sure to say that the BLM protester who was shot was a veteran, BUT strangely did not mention that Daniel Perry was a U.S. Army Sergeant at the time.”
Except for in the very first sentence of the article.
Look for democrats to charge him with some made uyp federal crime now.
Question - where in the Texas constitution does the power to reverse a pardon get granted to the Texas Supreme court? ‘Cause I cant find it.
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