Texas Ex-Prosecutor Is Sentenced

[dogday]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/national/02texas.html?ex=1275364800&en=62203cd06c133f14&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 2, 2005
AMARILLO, Tex., June 1 (AP) - A former district attorney who had a reputation for being tough on drug offenders was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison on drug-related charges.

The former prosecutor, Rick Roach, 55, was a district attorney for five Texas Panhandle counties when he was arrested at the courthouse for carrying two guns in his briefcase and admitted he was a methamphetamine addict. He was charged with unlawful possession of a gun by a drug addict; charges of methamphetamine and cocaine possession were dropped in a plea bargain.


What can I say? You live by the sword, you die by the sword

[Village Idiot]

1. Is this a joke?

Rick ROACH???

BWAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!

[GOPisEvil]

2. Sadly, it's not a joke.

I testified at a trial at which his replacement was the prosecutor. He had let a lot of cases slide over the years, and she is in the process of cleaning up a lot of the mess he made.