Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawyers invite prosecutors to quit case after they ask for back pay
AUSTIN — Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawyers are opposed to delaying their client's criminal fraud trials, saying a request by the state's attorneys to be given a year's worth of back pay "is as offensive to the conscience as it is irrelevant to our proceedings."
Last week, the three special prosecutors chosen to pursue charges against Paxton asked for his May 1 trial to be delayed until they were paid more than $205,000 for more than a year's worth of work. In their response filed Monday afternoon, Paxton's attorneys said the delay request flies in the face of their client's right to a speedy trial.
They asked the presiding judge to reject the motion to delay or invite the prosecutors to step aside "so that a more reasonably priced prosecutor may continue." In blasting the prosecutors' request, Paxton's lawyers likened the prosecutors to Judas and Cuba Gooding Jr.'s character in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire.
"Their request for continuance on the sole basis that they, as state employees, have not been paid their asking price of thirty pieces of silver is as offensive to the conscience as it is irrelevant to our proceedings," Paxton's lawyers wrote. "They were too busy emulating Cuba Gooding Jr.'s incessant shouts of 'show me the money!'
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[font color=330099]With the defense attorney's continuous appeals and motions to hamper the trial it is ludicrous for them to make any motions that their client's right to a speedy trial has somehow been infringed.[/font]
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