Growing support for dismissal of charges against Gov. Perry

[alp227]

Source: KVUE-TV Austin

AUSTIN --Some of the nation's best-known lawyers and legal scholars will file a request in state district court Monday for a judge to dismiss felony charges against Gov. Rick Perry.

The 14 participants include well-known Republicans —former U.S. Solicitors General Ken Starr and Ted Olson, for example —but also Democrats such as former state Supreme Court Justice Raul Gonzalez.

Jeff Blackburn, founder and chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, which has worked to free defendants who were wrongly convicted, is also joining in the effort, according to the request.

Read more: http://www.kvue.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/09/exclusive-support-for-gov-perry-growing/18783501/

[TexasTowelie]

1. I call bullshit.

Let the prick stand trial and exonerate himself in front of a jury since it's the American way.

[SoapBox]

7. I'll see your bullshit and raise you a

load of crap!

Another CROOK that others of power and money, want off the hook.

But by GAWD, you had better not jaywalk or it's a hefty fine, a criminal record and jail time!

[C Moon]

2. And so goes the country.

It just SUCKS that if this had happened to a Democratic candidate, he/she would have been hung from the nearest tree.
It happens to a GOP'r, ...and "oh, he just made a mistake, you can't jail a politician."
GRRRRRRRR!
I think U.S. citizens (and probably elsewhere as well) think folks with lots of money, can't be put in prison. When in fact, many of them do more selfish harm to others than a kid who robs a liquor store.

[MillennialDem]

3. Different rules for the little people.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. seems pretty clear

'A Travis County grand jury in August indicted Perry on charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. The indictment resulted from his threat last year to Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign after her April 2013 drunken driving conviction or lose $7.5 million in funding to the state's Public Integrity Unit housed in her office. Lehmberg refused to step down, and Perry carried out the threat by using his line-item veto authority in the state budget.'

I'd say he was deserving of everything he gets.

[Cha]

5. Ken Starr and Ted Olson.. figures. too bad about the Dems who don't mind perry's corrupt a$$..

"It will be up to State District Judge Bert Richardson, a San Antonio Republican assigned to the case, to consider how much consideration to give the request."

We'll see how Judge Bert Richardson feels about.

thanks alp

[jonjensen]

6. law and order for republicans too!

republiscum want law and order for others and mercy and forgiveness for themselves let jury decide.

[branford]

8. Do you know why so many prominent Democrats and liberals are supporting dismissal of the charges?

They're a load of crap, and made in retaliation for trying to stop a renegade district attorney.

It doesn't matter if the defendant is Rick Perry or anyone else. If case is not soon outright dismissed, I predict a jury will take less than an hour to acquit. More importantly, if the case proceeds, do not be surprised of the same tactic is used against sitting Democratic politicians. The criminal justice system is not a mechanism to settle persona vendettas or political disputes, and claiming that Republicans do it is the response of a petulant and hypocritical child.

If you have any doubts that Perry acted appropriately, just watch the videos of the district attorney.

[Live and Learn]

10. Huh? Per your own videos she did nothing to warrant Perry's actions. nt

[Fred Sanders]

13. The more you profess to be a saint , the more you are forgiven for being a sinner. Jesus Saves.

And if not a Jesus freak, you are fucked, as Jesus intended.

This DA was a sinner from the get go, Perry is one of the saints.

Once again it is religion that is fucking this up, how many of the " supporters" are evangelicals, care to count?

Justice for all or justice for none.

[blm]

14. So, you're saying Perry did NOT act appropriately when he chose to NOT target other US and

district attorneys who were arrested for drunk driving? Of course you do know by now that the ones he did NOT target are Republicans.....don't you?

What you ARE revealing with your little rant is that you approve of unequal justice.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20140819-travis-das-drunken-driving-arrest-riled-perry-others-didnt.ece

[vkkv]

15. Lemberg was charged for an illegal action. Rick Perry should not be?

You're saying that Gov. Perry should NOT be charged for his illegal actions thoujgh Lemberg was charged and punished?

You're saying that the law should only work for some and not others?

Liars and black-mailers are the worst.

Texecute them! (Texas style execution -lot's of errors and the pain of torture).

[Spirochete]

9. They won't send that asshole to jail, anyway

Siegelman, on the other hand...

[blkmusclmachine]

11. "Little peons, go back to your useless unimportant lives and let the Gods run the country."

Too Big To Jail

[joshdawg]

12. IOKIYAR

They can get away with murder, literally, and nothing happens. Made of Teflon, apparently. Just look at bush, the idiot son and THE DICK.

[PatrynXX]

16. is Raul Gonzalez a progressive or a conservative ?

thats all I need to know