Judge hears DeLay case pre-trial motions

[maddezmom]

Source: UPI

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Former Republican House leader Tom DeLay appears headed for trial on money laundering charges, his lawyer said after a day of pre-trial hearings.

The hearings were to resume Wednesday with Travis County, Texas, prosecutors and DeLay's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, expected to argue about where the trial should be heard, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

DeLay wants to be tried in his home county near Houston and his attorney is expected to argue that state law requires the trial be in DeLay's home county because the case involves election matters, the American-Statesman said. However, prosecutors are expected to argue DeLay was charged under the criminal code, so they could try him in Travis County where he was indicted.

Judge Pat Priest said DeLay would be tried before his co-defendants, former aides Jim Ellis and John Colyandro. DeLay was indicted in 2005 on charges of conspiracy to violate election laws and forced to resign as House speaker. He eventually decided not to return to Congress.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/08/25/Judge-hears-DeLay-case-pre-trial-motions/UPI-69491282740597/

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Tom DeLay: I'll win my case, then go after the prosecutor

7:44 AM Wed, Aug 25, 2010

Tom DeLay says once his money-laundering trial is over - and he expects to win - he intends to go after the public integrity unit that brought his indictment in the first place. Under state law, the Travis County district attorney is authorized to prosecute corruption cases against Texas politicians. It's been doing it for years - prosecuting Attorney General Jim Mattox and House Speaker Gib Lewis (both Democrats) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (a Republican). But DeLay said Tuesday that when the unit targeted him, it went too far.

"After this is over," DeLay said during a break in a pre-trial hearing in Austin, "we're going after the constitutionality of a locally elected district attorney that can go after federally elected people in Travis County. There's so much unconstitutional in this whole thing. We're not just going to give up with this trial. We're going to reform the justice system that allows this kind of thing to happen."

more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/08/tom-delay-ill-win-my-case-then.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. DeLay will lose, and spend 5 years in prison, the worst prison in Texas

then he'll sing a different tune after he gets out.

And he won't be even allowed to vote again.

[molly77]

3. Our track record since 2000 would prove otherwise

You have to be a democrat to go to jail for political shenanigans .Tom DeLay has been dancing with the stars for sometime now. Don Seigleman was put in shackles and sent to jail while his appeals were processed.Tom DeLay was guilty . Don Seigleman wasn't guilty of anything but saying he lost an election at 1 AM due to election fraud.

[L. Coyote]

4. What can a lowly intern do?

Nothing, it seems.

(The lowly intern is Obama, who interned at the firm defending Bush criminals, Sidley Austin.)

[AlbertCat]

2. Tom DeLay: I'll win my case, then go after the prosecutor

What a pitiful, tiny, rancorous man.

See the kind of person the GOP picks to lead them? Boehner's the same way, just a drunk. "Hell, no you can't!"

[drgonzosghost]

5. We all know he's going to get away scott free....

He's a republican being tried for corruption in Texastan. He and the judge are probably already exchanging love letters.

[Vincardog]

6. Bingo. e will just appeal until the Corporate Judges get the case and illegally rule in in favor

[maddezmom]

7. DeLay is denied change of venue out of Travis County

DeLay is denied change of venue out of Travis County

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/08/25/2425665/area-state-briefs-delay-is-denied.html#ixzz0xgy9Rk1I