DeLay "paralyzed" by indictment, "trying to avoid handcuffs"...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

DeLay Must Appear in Austin on Charge

By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press WriterWed Sep 28, 7:52 PM ET

The next step in the criminal proceedings against Republican leader Tom DeLay is a trip to Austin to be fingerprinted and photographed. DeLay was indicted Wednesday on one count of criminal conspiracy for his alleged role in a campaign finance scheme that helped give Republicans power in the Texas House and in Congress. DeLay's attorneys were working out the details of when the 11-term congressman would return to Texas in hopes of saving him from further embarrassment, they said.

"What we're trying to avoid is Ronnie Earle having him taken down in handcuffs, and fingerprinted and photographed. That's uncalled for and I don't think that's going to happen," said Dick DeGuerin, DeLay's attorney.

DeLay could go to trial in 90 days, which the defense said it favored. "We want a trial right away," DeGuerin said. "We want a trial by the end of the year."

Buck Wood, an attorney who represents Democrats suing some of the corporations that contributed to DeLay's PAC, said although it's difficult to go to trial quickly that may best serve DeLay. "I can understand why Tom DeLay wants a quick trial, because politically (the indictment) paralyzes him," Wood said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_on_go_co/delay_next_step_1&printer=1

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Can you say "perp walk"?

[wakeme2008]

4. I wanna "perp walk"

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[ladylibertee]

"We want a trial right away," Oh I bet you do.LOL To bad for Tommy

that he doesn't have enough of his so called clout and persuasiveness to get it done.TO THE GUILLOTINE you mushy faced fart.

[rosesaylavee]

2. Dead man walking n/t

[XanaDUer]

3. Dick DeGeurin is still alive?

...

[rooboy]

7. Dick DeGuerin represented some of fhe Branch Davidians, didn't he? n/t

[XanaDUer]

14. Lol!

It seems that everytime I pick up a true-crime book about a case in Texas, his name is in it.

Not sure if he represented the BD, but I would not be surprised. Not that everyone isn't entitled to a good defense attorney, which I understand he is, if you can afford him.

I vaguely remember he may have represented Cullen Davis, but I'm not sure...

[Bridget Burke]

24. Richard "Racehorse" Haynes defended Cullen Davis...

He also got a mistrial for John Hill, the River Oaks plastic surgeon accused of murdering his wife with tainted pastry. Hill may have been innocent but that did not stop his father-in-law, Ash Robinson, from putting a hit on him. Robinson was never charged, unlike the two women who helped arrange things. The shooter was killed by police.

Another client was Vicki Daniel, accused of murdering her husband, Price Daniel Jr. She'd had filed for divorce a few weeks earlier. Haynes convinced the judge that the shooting was accidental.

All these cases are detailed in various lurid books & made for TV movies. Yes, I have a lowbrow interest in Notorious Texas Murders.

Dick DeGuerin defended one of the possible conspirators in the John Hill murder, along with Kay Bailey Hutchinson & David Koresh. Another recent client was Richard Durst, the millionaire who dismembered a neighbor & dumped the pieces in Galveston Bay. He was acquitted because the jury was not convinced he had murdered the guy before the dismemberment.

DeGuerin is a Democrat & would like Kinky Friedman to run for Governor as a Democrat. He is Kinky's Campaign Advisor:

http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/news/detail.php?id=80

Both Haynes & DeGuerin were proteges of Percy Foreman.

[XanaDUer]

27. I'd forgotten about Richard Durst.

Thanks for the info. I was right about Cullen Davis (I have a lurid interest in true crime).

[cornermouse]

5. Handcuffs don't accessorize very successfully with designer suits.

and silk shirts.

[Clark2008]

15. Oh, I think they do - they'd go well with his silver striped

Armani suit.

:evilgrin:

[Richard Steele]

6. Utter Bullshit; the indictment shows that Delay already cut a deal.

The official paperwork states that he
waived the statute of limitations on this single charge,
WITH ADVICE OF COUNCIL.

Translation:
Delay has known about this indictment for MONTHS,
and he could have avoided it by simply waiting it out.
(3 year limit on this charge)
But his lawyers agreed that he should ALLOW HIMSELF to be charged
with this single count of CONSPIRACY.

Explanation:
The prosecutor had MANY charges to present to the Grand Jury,
but Delay made a DEAL way ahead of time.

He's gonna pull an AGNEW!
He's gonna scream and cry that the charges are false,
right up until his court date.

Then, he's gonna quietly and politely plead "no contest"...

...and leave the courtroom, face the crowd of cameras outside,
and start screaming and crying about how the charges are all BS!

It's a fully-scripted PLAN.
And it's gonna work even LESS well than it did
when Spiro Agnew did it.

Some of you younger DUers might be wondering, "Spiral WHO????"

EXACTLY!
Just as young voters in 2035 will ask, "Tom De who now"?

Stick a fork in him, he's DONE.

PEACE OUT!

[ladylibertee]

8. ?

[Richard Steele]

10. As long as I have no idea what you are "?" about....

"Could you please re-state the question?

[ladylibertee]

18. Sorry, I sort of don't get what you were saying.I want to,I just don't

[Richard Steele]

19. That's cool. That's why I broke out the Enoch Powell Pic!

I REALLY wish I knew WTF that pic was about,
but I sure don't!

I KNOW what a pogo stick is,
and GOOGLE filled me in on Sir Enoch,
but I still look at that pic like my cat watches Futurama!

And I am kinda retarded; (socially)
lotsa people have no idea what I am
trying to say sometimes!

My friends tell me it's best to just ignore my nonsense and keep moving.
:pals:

[ladylibertee]

21. Naw, your cool.

:pals:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

29. LOL, Enoch Powell!!

When my husband still resided in Northern Ireland about 30 years ago, Enoch was his MP. Not that Mr. Wonderful ever voted for him or any other Unionist candidate.

Thanks for the chuckle. I need it right now.

[Richard Steele]

35. You wouldn't happen to have any idea...

... WTF that photo is about, would you?

As I said below, I have no clue!

Its like it just popped onto the internets
from some alternate universe or something.

[skids]

11. Could also be...

...he was given the option: we're either going to indict you now, or if you agree to the indictment sticking after the statute of limitations, we can put it off. (Thus giving the prosecutor more time to build a case for other indictments.) Delay could have opted for that option because it was better timing politically or because he thought his damage control team could also use more prep time.

Not that I know so. Just that that's another possible interperatation.

[ClintonTyree]

13. The comparison with Agnew is hauntingly familiar.......

and it could very well play out as you say. In any case, DeLay is going down and that in and of itself is reason for joy within the Democratic ranks. One huge, crooked, lying, scheming Republican twit down, but still so many to go. But it's a start!

[liberal N proud]

9. I want a picture of him in an Orange Jump Suit

[mark11727]

12. Please let his butt-ugly mugshot be posted on The Smoking Gun...

...there's a t-shirt in there somewhere..!

[Ganja Ninja]

16. DeLay's mugshot will make a fine avatar someday ...

someday soon!

[Wabbajack]

17. Delay reminds me of

Cliff Barnes from Dallas.

[Bridget Burke]

25. Or, perhaps, George Bush (Sr) is the Cliff Barnes of Texas Politics.

Molly Ivins said it, so it must be true.

DeLay reminds me of JR--but without the charm.

[skooooo]

20. Do lizards have "fingerprints?"

[OneTwentyoNine]

22. To GD bad isn't it?? Delay will be spraying bugs by next June....

Wonder if he still has his old customer list?

[cassiepriam]

23. They can drag Cindy away in handcuffs for sitting on a sidewalk...

but not Delay for the crap he has pulled?

[quaoar]

26. The hell with handcuffs

I want to see the son of a bitch in leg irons on a chain gang.

[AspenRose]

28. Frog March that criminal!

Frog march! FROG MARCH!!!!!

[paineinthearse]

30. Cavity search time!

Delay is not above the law, I want him given no special priviledges, orange jumpsuit, shackles, fingerprinting, photographs, cavity search, the whole nine yards!

[PDittie]

31. Nail the Hammer to a billboard.

""

http://workingforchange.com/order/index.cfm?OrderFormID=1">Don't delay.

[category5]

32. Delay is guilty guilty guilty....I don't care if it's not proven in court

yet. The innocent until proven guilty should apply only to common
working folks. Republican right wingers are guilty as soon as they
are charged or indicted. Take it or leave it.

[Pachamama]

33. Oh please, please please - I want to see the Frog March of Delay so BADLY!

That's a photo that I want framed....right next to the empty frames I have waiting for Rove, Scooter Libby, Rumsfeld, Condi, Wolfowitz, and the big ones for Bush and Cheney.....

The hall of shame gallery photo frames are waiting for the pix of them all in handcuffs doing the frog march....

:bounce:

[crowshadow]

34. Concentrate and it can happen.