Posted on 10/03/2005 2:58:36 PM PDT by kcvl
Per Fox News...
Yes, they do, but sadly, they will probably run the other direction.
Earle "allowed us behind the scenes when the indictments came down last year, the first wave of indictments," Schermbeck says. "We got to follow him back to his home a couple of times, which I understand he doesn't allow anybody to do."
So far, The Big Buy has received almost no attention in the press. With DeLay's indictment, and increased attention to Earle as well, that situation seems likely to change. (The filmmakers say they will be back at work next week, filming a new ending to the picture.) "We're pretty low on everybody's radar," Schermbeck says. "We kind of took a gamble three years ago. We didn't know what was going to happen. We feel like, as documentary filmmakers, we gambled and it paid off."
Coming Soon: The Ronnie Earle Movie
It sounds to me like prosecutoral misconduct to allow FILMAKERS to make a MOVIE about someone being INDICTED!
Earle is to "indictments" what Klayman is to "FOIA"
Sad but true.
What an outrage. There are no words.
When everyone on both sides mocked the original indictment, this was the last desperate chance.
How many more grand juries are on retainer for this democrat prosecutor?
Thanks for the info and bump to call my senators tomorrow.
Actually, he can. He can sue for malicious prosecution, though in Texas state courts it is tough due to restrictions on suing governmental entities. The best way to do it is to allege civil rights violations and sue under those, with added causes of action, in either Federal or state court. Federal is usually the best bet as they are more familiar with the issues involved.
Earle's an "idealist" (old liberal) who is looking for his last chance to shibe before he dies.
Obviously not your practice area. Re-read 42 U.S.C. 1983
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00001983----000-.html
And then take another look at Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, (1976)
"The common-law rule of immunity is thus well settled. 21 We now must determine whether the same considerations of public policy that underlie the common-law rule likewise countenance absolute immunity under 1983. We think they do. If a prosecutor had only a qualified immunity, the threat of 1983 suits would undermine performance of his duties no less than would the threat of common-law suits for malicious prosecution. A prosecutor is duty bound to exercise his best judgment both in deciding which suits to bring and in conducting them in court. The public trust of the prosecutor's office would suffer if he were constrained in making every decision by the consequences in terms of his own potential liability in a suit for damages...We agree with the Court of Appeals that respondent's activities were intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process, and thus were functions to which the reasons for absolute immunity apply with full force."
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=424&invol=409
Why do you post things 4 times?
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Ann Coulter said once, "in their search for monsters, they have become monsters themselves".
Her words are proving true every day.
Also .. this bunch of dems in Austin is the same bunch that produced the "forged documents". I don't trust any of them.
The Democrats are playing hardball this time, its time the GOP steps up and plays seriously.
They all want to be in the movie
You would think the state AG would step on him for acting like this.
I heard a bit on Fox last night -- I think it was a Dem quoted as saying Earle sics his people on targets because he thinks what they're doing is wrong, even if it's not illegal and no one can figure out what they could claim is illegal. Isn't that Spitzer's MO too? (Seems that there should be some recourse against these people, but what do I know?)
I agree with you completely, Earle's jusy trying to cover his butt. Delay's indictments will be tossed out and Earle will be exposed for the political hack he is.
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