DA raises specter of judicial wrongdoing (DeLay case)

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AAS 9/23/08
DA raises specter of judicial wrongdoing

AUSTIN — Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has raised the specter of judicial corruption in asking an appeals court to reconsider an opinion in a money-laundering case against two associates of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

"The dark shadow of corruption of our system of justice looms over this case," Earle wrote in a brief. "Every lawyer has a duty to raise questions of corruption that go to the heart of our judicial system, and it is in the discharge of that duty that the State pursues this effort."

Without naming names, Earle aimed his remarks Monday at a panel of three Republican judges who last month upheld the constitutionality of a law used to indict DeLay and associates Jim Ellis and John Colyandro on money-laundering charges dating from 2002 legislative elections.

In that ruling in the cases against Ellis and Colyandro, the judicial panel volunteered that the state's money-laundering statute in 2002 did not cover checks. That prompted DeLay's lawyers to declare victory because the three men are accused of laundering $190,000 in corporate donations, which are generally banned from state campaigns, into legal political donations — all by check.

Ronnie may be too cautious on naming names so I'll do it for him. Here are the corrupt bastard's names who protected Tom DeLay and let him and his political mafia break the law Justice Alan Waldrop, Justice David Puryear and Justice Bob Pemberton. Remember those names and always vote against these Republicans!

AAS 8/25/08
DeLay might be cleared of charges
Appeals court says money-laundering law didn't apply to checks.

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Three judges, all Republicans, issued Friday's opinion, which was written by Justice Alan Waldrop.

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Sonia

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1. Earle asks judge to step down in DeLay case

AAS 9/24/08
Earle asks judge to step down in DeLay case
Travis County district attorney criticizes justice's role in a related civil lawsuit.
By Laylan Copelin
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle on Tuesday asked that 3rd Court of Appeals Justice Alan Waldrop recuse himself from a money-laundering case against two associates of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Waldrop authored the opinion last month that upheld the constitutionality of the law used to indict DeLay and, separately, his associates, John Colyandro and Jim Ellis. But he suggested that the charges ultimately could be dismissed because the trio used checks, not cash, when they allegedly laundered $190,000 of corporate money into campaign donations during the 2002 elections. Corporate money is generally banned from state campaigns.

Earle's filing Tuesday was narrower in scope — targeting only Waldrop, not the whole three-judge panel — and less ominous than his comments a day earlier in a request for a rehearing by the court. In that filing he wrote: "The dark shadow of corruption of our system of justice looms over this case."

I bet the Waldrop won't recuse himself because he's a republican and they don't do "ethical".


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