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The New DU. Reply #19: Same charges against Kaye Bailey Hutchison in the '90's in Texas.
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Jane Austin
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Wed Mar-01-06 11:44 AM
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| 19. Same charges against Kaye Bailey Hutchison in the '90's in Texas. |
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I think it was having state employees perform personal errands and doing campaign work from her state offices - - Treasurer or Comptroller - - my memory fails me on this.
A worker turned over the evidence to Ronnie Earle, who brought the charges, but the hand-picked judge wouldn't allow the evidence.
That evidence was on her office computers and the judge wouldn't allow it. Wouldn't allow state-owned computers to be used in the case! Without the evidence, the prosecution didn't have a case.
This is the chief example right-wingers use to try to show that Earle is merely partisan. "His case against KB Hutchison was so weak they had to drop it." they say.
His case wasn't weak. He just wasn't allowed to use the evidence.
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