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DeLay won't be indicted
by kos
Mon Aug 15th, 2005 at 10:07:23 PDT
Many of us, me included, have harbored hopes that Ronnie Earle would work his way toward a DeLay indictment in his investigation of DeLay's illegal power grab.
And while the indictments have flown left and right, targetting a who's who of DeLay's Austin clique, we're going to have to surrender hopes that DeLay himself will get dragged into the fray.
A source close to the investigataion says it won't happen, and the reason is a technicality. Earle's jursidiction on election law violatioons extends only to the Travis County borders, and DeLay's home base is outside of Houston. DeLay would have to be investigated and indicted by the Fort Bend County DA. And given that he is a Republican, it ain't gonna happen.
The possibility that DeLay might escape indictment because of jurisdictional issues isn't news. The Statesman suggested as such back in September of last year:
The election code allows Earle to prosecute Colyandro because he lives in Austin. It also gives Earle jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants. But because Craddick and DeLay live in Texas, but outside of Travis County, their local district attorneys would have jurisdiction over election code violations.
The question was whether Earle could get DeLay for violations outside the election code, but apparently that won't happen. Earle's current grand jury finishes its work in October, and that will be the last one on the matter. So no DeLay. But expect an avalanche of indictments in any case.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/15/13723/4767
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