Posted on 10/11/2005 2:47:02 PM PDT by flattorney
AUSTIN -- Dick DeGuerin, lawyer for indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on Tuesday subpoenaed the prosecuting Texas district attorney in an effort to show he acted improperly with grand jurors.
The subpoena for Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, filed in Austin, asked that the prosecutor and two of his assistants appear in court to explain their conduct.
The lawyers, previously had filed a motion asking for dismissal of the conspiracy and money-laundering charges against DeLay, the former House majority leader who has stepped aside from that post because of the indictment.
Dick DeGuerin, DeLay's attorney, also asked that grand jurors be released from their secrecy oath so they could answer questions about the prosecutor's conduct.
Notice that the MSM is barely reporting this story, they know it's totally bogus. THE HAMMER ROCKS!
Did you ping Basil? We vote in the district where little mr earle is going to run.
Heh, your profile page is the first (other than my own) I've bookmarked.
We need to make sure little boy earle never gets elected ping.
Rats jump ship!!!!!
Actually, I don't think I live in his district. I live in Lakeway. But--if his name shows up on my ballot, you can rest assured that he won't get my vote--LOL!
Anyone know the names of the two assistants involved in the case?
Earle's two supoenaed associate's names are Rosemary Lehmberg and Rick Reed.
Thank you sir, now I know who not to vote for when they seek office in Travis County.
Not a Texan but have become very found of some of them the last 5 years. Will be glad to help write letters and get the word out so the weak in the knees do NOT sell Delay down the river.
DeLay's Attorneys Refile Subpoenas Against DA Ronnie Earle and Two Of His Prosecutors
Wednesday, 5:11 pm CDT October 12, 2005
AUSTIN -- Rep. Tom DeLay's legal team on Wednesday refiled subpoenas trying to compel prosecutors to testify about their contact with three grand juries during an investigation of the Texas Republican.
The subpoenas were refiled to make technical corrections to the documents that contend Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle acted improperly with two grand juries. Two of the grand juries filed charges and one refused.
DeLay had to temporarily step aside as U.S. House majority leader when he was charged with conspiracy and money laundering in a state campaign finance investigation led by Earle. DeLay has denied any wrongdoing.
While a clerk for the grand jury had received the corrected document, a spokesman in Earle's office said he had not yet been served with the latest subpoena late Wednesday.
The subpoena was first delivered on Tuesday, but defense attorney Dick DeGuerin said Earle refused the subpoena when he declined to sign a paper acknowledging its delivery. Earle countered that he voluntarily accepted it and a spokesman in his office said a signature is not legally required to accept a subpoena.
Earle said redelivery to his office was unnecessary.
http://www.click2houston.com/politics/5091533/detail.html
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>>>Earle countered that he voluntarily accepted it and a spokesman in his office said a signature is not legally required to accept a subpoena.<<<
That is total bull as to a signature not legally be required to accept a subpoena. - fla
I also posted the article to a parallel thread
" Delay Test on Delay":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498100/posts?page=58#58
In that thread there was some doubt, because of the pretrial nature of grand jury proceedings, that there would be a failure of the ripeness test for Delay to get into federal court on a Due Process issue. ( ie. that Delay would have to be in jail after sentencing before
a case could be brought in federal court!) Do you think that certiorari with mandamus in aid might be something that Guerin will pursue if he gets the evidence he needs from Earle's aids ?
I think we might be into a situation where there could be new law made here on the 14th amendment, that is if Guerin gets the evidence he's after via the subpoena process.
Wouldn't it be great if a federal court quashed the Texas indictment? I mean here we have the Republican House whip out of harness because of a politically motivated indictment? We are now living in interesting times!
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