You knew it was going to happen. The other charges will probably be quietly dropped.
“The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today refused to reinstate criminal conspiracy charges against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two co-defendants.
DeLay, R-Sugar Land, and political consultants Jim Ellis and John Colyandro were accused of conspiring to violate state election laws in the 2002 elections for the Texas House. But lower courts threw out the indictment on grounds that conspiracy to violate the election code was not a crime until 2003,
A majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals agreed.
DeLay, Ellis and Colyandro were charged with plotting to funnel illegal corporate campaign contributions to several Republican House candidates in 2002, when the GOP gained its first House majority of modern times.
The three also were charged with money laundering, but a trial on those charges has been held up pending a resolution of the conspiracy charges.
DeLay’s attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said he was pleased with the ruling but sorry that it took so long and resulted in DeLay’s resignation from Congress, where he represented Houston’s southwest suburbs for more than 20 years.â€
DeLay’s career destroyed, his family raked over the muck, and his effectiveness in the house eliminated as a threat; no matter that it was all bullsh*t.
Hopefully Rush Limbaugh will highlight this today. The news came out too late for any chatter Wednesday. I agree tho, this needs to be advertised strongly but for some reason our party has no public relation system. I’ve always thought we need to improve on PR and get the message out...all we hear is the negativity of the left…
I always felt this would happen because of the political nature of the charges, but then I thought Scooter would not be convicted. I’m glad to see this happen.
As far as I know, Earl has not won a conviction on any case that has run into legal trouble. Like the Nifong Duke rape case, Earl tends to rush in head long without being sure of his evidence or even the law.
Besides with Delay out of congress they got what they really wanted so the other charges will probably be dropped.
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