The Worm Turns: DeLay Subpoenas Earle

DeLay lawyers subpoena district attorney
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for indicted Rep. Tom DeLay today subpoenaed the prosecuting Texas district attorney in an effort to show he acted improperly with grand jurors.

The subpoena for Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, filed in Austin, asked that the prosecutor and two of his assistants appear in court to explain their conduct.

The lawyers previously had filed a motion asking for dismissal of the conspiracy and money-laundering charges against DeLay, who stepped aside as House majority leader because of the indictment.

Dick DeGuerin, DeLay's attorney, also asked that grand jurors be released from their secrecy oath so they could answer questions about the prosecutor's conduct.

DeGuerin wants Earle to answer 12 questions about conversations he had with grand jurors, including whether the prosecutor became angry when a grand jury decided against an indictment of DeLay and why the decision was not publicly released.

He also wants to know the details of Earle's conversation with William Gibson, foreman of a grand jury that indicted DeLay on conspiracy charges and whose term has since ended.

"If you did nothing improper, you should not be concerned about answering these questions," DeGuerin said in his letter to Earle.

The Left has picked a fight with a guy who will not lay down for it and they are getting ready find that out...in spades. Earle is a light weight when it comes to politics as a contact sport. Trumped up charges by the D.A. of the Democrat Controlled Travis County are just a bump in the road. If these charges had substance to them, Earle would not have had to use seven (that's 7 for you liberals)grand juries and further browbeat them into indicting DeLay.

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