Word on the Hill Re: DeLay indictment - "it's already been dismissed"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

I've got some sources on the Hill that hear the indictment's already been dismissed. They're higher level guys from the Republican side, so I don't know whether or not there's any truth to it, but that's the word I'm hearing. Don't shoot the messenger.

[Botany]

1. doubtfull

that sounds like repug spin.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Sounds doubtful to me too

It just wouldn't make any sense, but it comes from a guy that previously said DeLay should be stepping down anyway. I'm just passing along the info though, for whatever it's worth.

[jeff30997]

2. You're so dead !

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Damn!!

[leftchick]

3. that would explain his smile

pundit on msrnc said he was smiling when he talked to him this morning.

[jeff30997]

6. When he was arrested,Al Capone was smiling too.

[leftchick]

13. thanks!

I needed that!

[CottonBear]

4. How does that work, legally speaking?

I was on a grand jury once. I assumed that when we voted to indict on a prticuar charge that the case had to go to be prosecuted in a court of law.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. Good question - I don't know

Perhaps the judge assigned to the case already gave the order to dismiss the charges based on what he/she perceives as a lack of evidence. I don't know at all. Like I said, I'm just passing along the info.

[Torgo Johnson]

9. If it has already been dismissed...

why did Delay just step down as Majority Leader?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. Republican House Rules

The indictment doesn't just go away, but the case would be dismissed. One way or another, even if he was just indicted for a second, he'd be forced to give up leadership.

[Blue_Roses]

11. I don't see how this can be true considering this is an indictment

from TEXAS and he is already saying he will step down. Now getting a conviction--that's another story

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

12. I agree

Again - I wouldn't even bother passing the info along if it didn't come from someone I'd believe. It doesn't sound right to me either.

His stepping down, however, is forced the moment the indictment happened if the GOP is to follow their own rules at all.

[mzteris]

14. They used the word "dismissed"

in this context.......

... Kevin Madden, DeLay's spokesman, dismissed the charge as politically motivated. "This indictment is nothing more than prosecutorial retribution by a partisan ...