Posted on 11/24/2010 8:29:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise
Jurors considering the political money laundering case against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Tuesday delved deep into the evidence, but asked so many legal questions that the judge warned them that they were getting off track...
DeLay had with him a copy of Empire of the Summer Moon, a recent nonfiction book about the Comanche people and their famed chief, Quanah Parker, and a TouchPoint Bible that allows readers to find Scripture relevant to their lives.
"No demons, nor angels nor DAs can keep you separated from the love of Jesus Christ," DeLay said, playing off of a verse from Romans 8.
The jury ended the day about 4:30 p.m. by telling visiting District Judge Pat Priest, "We're making some progress, but we'd like to go home."
That brought their deliberations to four hours on Monday and seven on Tuesday.
The jury of six men and six women consists of a Republican, six Democrats, two independent conservatives and three independent liberals, DeLay said.
He said he was putting his faith of acquittal with the liberals because they were more empathetic. "I know them like they're my brothers and sisters," DeLay said.
The forewoman, a Greenpeace activist named Katie Stotts, studied anthropology at Southwestern University in Georgetown. A full list of jurors is sealed...
Several times the judge turned down jury down requests to clarify the law on money laundering. He granted their requests to review thousands of pages of e-mail messages, telephone records and a Federal Express receipt that showed when a blank check was delivered to Washington, D.C.
However, when the jury asked Priest for federal law not involved in the case, he told them, "I'm afraid you may be getting away from the decisions you must make."...
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I thought he was found not guilty already. When is this witch hunt ever going to end?
He never went to trial in the Fed case. They dropped the investigation. All that is left is the state case started by Ronnie Earle back when he was DA in Travis County.
Goodness, is DeLay gone mad too, imitating something Jack French Kemp would have said?
This is in Austin, Texas—the Liberal core of Texas.
iffen this is the trial stemming from the 2007/2008?? timeframe, i was pretty sure Delay did what he did, BUT there was no law at that time addressing it. Later a law was passed(i think) , and was after the Delay action.
Whole thing was seen as a futile exercise because no law existed to be broken.
Jury found him guilty on 2 counts...facing life in prison
While I’m a conservative in ideology, I’m not at all partisan when it comes to giving any government official his due when it comes to ethics or corruption convictions.
I favor the flat policy that ANY official regardless of political ties or position that has taken an oath of office to the USA Constitution and to the people (and that includes judges, DAs, elected officials, cops etc ) needs to face life in prison if they are found guilty of corruption. I’d give them one appeal but that would be it.
It would make a huge difference in ethics of Congress and others if their lives were put on the line. You would no longer see even the slightest perception of misbehavior.
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