That Rick Perry grand jury was totally corrupt, by the way
Posted on 08/20/2014 10:24:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
AUSTIN – Several members of the grand jury that indicted Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that his claim the indictment was based more on politics than substance is unfair and disrespectful to the months of work they put in.
The jury, which met weekly for four months, "really tried to keep an open mind and come to a fair decision given all the testimony that we heard," said Janna Bessin, one of the 12 Travis County residents appointed to serve on the grand jury.
"It's too bad," Bessin said, calling the criticism unfair. "But I guess that his side's job – to really spin it.".............
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BUT check out "the rest of the story."
Perry Grand Juror Was An Active Democratic Party Delegate During Jury Proceedings
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Oh, I'm sure of it. I just want to see something done about it. :-)
An honest judge would throw out the indictment based upon gross jury misconduct.
Are they LIJ’s - low information jurors or LCCJ’s - low cranial capacity jurors?
If I recall, grand juries only hear the evidence presented by the prosecutor who is appearing in front of them for the explicit purpose of getting an indictment.
The defendant does not have an opportunity to provide evidence or tell his side of the story at that time.
One of the resident legal minds here at FR could no doubt give some better insight on the issue.
Classic Star Wars funny there Jim...: LOL
“The jury, which met weekly for four months, “really tried to keep an open mind and come to a fair decision given all the testimony that we heard,” said Janna Bessin, one of the 12 Travis County residents appointed to serve on the grand jury. “
Four Pinochio’s for that one. :-)
She/he (?) is busted. Not political, my apple. There are even MORE incriminating posts at the link.
The upshot is that, given that Travis Co./Austin is so overwhelmingly Democrat/Communist/Leftist/friggin' weird, having the DA there with the authority to investigate and bring charges against state officials, who are largely Republican, and department heads, also largely Republican, it's the tyranny of the minority.
Tom DeLay said on Fox News this morning that the unit is unConstitutional, which it seems to me it is. After all, why would a DA, elected locally, have the power to investigate and bring charges against officials elected by voters statewide? Why would a local official have the authority to just assume statewide power with no legislation to back it up?
Texan FReepers, do I have the background story right? Is this something that's common knowledge outside the state of Texas, and I'm just now waking up to it? If so, that's freakin' strange. I think if I were a Texan, I'd be fighting it with every fiber of my being, also!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
If its the governors office we know he’ll face another charge of coercion.
There's a push to get it put under the Attorney General where it belongs, but if it has no Constitutional basis to begin with, I'd rather it didn't exist at all.
When even David Axelrod admits it’s political democrat scum you KNOW it’s scum.
You pretty much nailed it.
It’s certainly possible for a grand jury to be used for political purposes to achieve a political outcome and the members not realizing or believe it.
It all depends on how selective the DA is in presenting evidence. I’m guessing here that the DA was highly selective in both evidence presented AND interpretation of the law presented.
You left out one of the main things. The state govt funded PIU. The state lege, which has been controlled by GOPers for a long time, appropriated the money.
Then Perry used his line item veto power to veto the funding for PIU. But that was only after Lehmberg refused to resign. If she had resigned, Perry would have left the funding intact. And if she had resigned, then Perry would have had the authority to replace her with someone of his choice, no doubt a republican. So you would have the governor actually controlling the DA's office in Travis county.
Also, you might want to do some research on the history of who all the PIU has prosecuted thru the years. Your statement that it has been only republicans is not correct.
Wouldn’t this permit the indictment to be thrown out on technical reasons?
She may have been ok’d to speak out. The public isn’t reacting to this as expected, and having it tossed on a technicality leaves the cloud of corruption hanging over Perry’s head while denying him the abililty to have it quashed in court, by the perceived legitimacy of a jury.
I sure hope they don’t have kids
More lies and garbage from liberals and democrats.
I totally left out the funding part, you're right, but that begs another question...why has the Republican legislature continued to fund this apparently un-Constitutional usurpation of state authority? Maybe that speaks to why Jorge Bush was so willing to sign un-(US)Constitutional bills like the creation of DHS, NCLB and the Mediscare drug benefit...he'd done it as the Texan governor in the case of the "Public Integrity" Unit.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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