MORE bad news for The Hammer...next hearing will be after Christmas

Holiday Defers Next Hearing In DeLay Case

Saturday, December 10, 2005

A Texas judge has told attorneys for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) that pretrial hearings in DeLay's money-laundering and conspiracy case will not be held until after Christmas. The lawyers had sought earlier hearings on their separate motions to move any trial out of Austin and to gain a dismissal of the charges against the former House majority leader because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct. But Senior Judge Pat Priest said in a letter that his calendar is too full until after the holiday.

Priest also said a trial date depends on whether the prosecutor appeals the judge's decision earlier this week to dismiss on legal grounds a separate conspiracy indictment. He said that "I am fine with . . . planning a trial setting early next year" but that an appeal would force a delay.

DeLay, 58, along with GOP fundraisers John Colyandro and James W. Ellis, is accused of illegally funneling $190,000 in corporate donations to 2002 legislative candidates in Texas. Under state law, corporate money cannot be directly used for election purposes. DeLay has denied the charges.

Priest further indicated DeLay will have to share a trial with Ellis and Colyandro, and to be tried on money-laundering and related conspiracy charges at the same time. Defense attorneys had wanted the cases separated so DeLay's could proceed more quickly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901788_pf.html

Keep that ratfinkbloodsucker in the courts as long as possible.

LOLOLOL.




Cher

Not grinning now are you you Tommy?

DeLay is the perfect poster boy for the rank corruption in the Republican Party today. The Dems should use him as a synmbol of what is wrong with one party controlling everything and the arrogance that breeds the immoral corruption we're seeing today in Washington.

Bwahahahaha!!!! They didn't want him sitting at the table with 2 others...makes him look more guilty! :bounce:

I love it, I tell you! I love it!

... Angleton would be just fine with me.

Doesn't George know any judges for sale in Austin? Or did he piss them all off? I hope so.

Delay is going to lose his seat. Hopefully he will be wearing orange.
Who is going to bail him out now? What a loathsome bastard.

People, I hope we all realize that the ONLY way they have been able to conquer is through dirty dealings and stealing votes. It has to stop. Let this be the beginning of the end of their reign of terror. And so it is, amen.

We're not hearing or seeing very much of him lately, strangely enough....