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Texas appeals court to weigh felony charge against Rick Perry
Source: Reuters
US | Wed Oct 7, 2015 12:19pm EDT
Texas appeals court to weigh felony charge against Rick Perry
AUSTIN, TEXAS | BY JON HERSKOVITZ
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said on Wednesday it will hear arguments on whether former Texas Governor Rick Perry should face trial on an abuse of power count, one of the charges that clouded his failed Republican presidential run.
The court set Nov. 4 oral arguments for the count of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony charge that can carry from five to 99 years in prison
In July, a Texas state appeals court threw out a lesser charge leveled against Perry for coercion of a public official.
Perry was indicted on the two charges in August 2014 by a grand jury in Travis County, a Democratic stronghold in the heavily Republican state, over a funding veto he made in 2013 that was seen as being intended to force a local prosecutor to resign
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Texas appeals court to weigh felony charge against Rick Perry
AUSTIN, TEXAS | BY JON HERSKOVITZ
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said on Wednesday it will hear arguments on whether former Texas Governor Rick Perry should face trial on an abuse of power count, one of the charges that clouded his failed Republican presidential run.
The court set Nov. 4 oral arguments for the count of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony charge that can carry from five to 99 years in prison
In July, a Texas state appeals court threw out a lesser charge leveled against Perry for coercion of a public official.
Perry was indicted on the two charges in August 2014 by a grand jury in Travis County, a Democratic stronghold in the heavily Republican state, over a funding veto he made in 2013 that was seen as being intended to force a local prosecutor to resign
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/us-usa-texas-perry-idUSKCN0S120L20151007
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