Texas appeals court upholds DeLay reversal

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON (AP) — The highest criminal court in Texas has refused to reinstate two money-laundering convictions of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday upheld a ruling last year from the 3rd Court of Appeals that tossed DeLay’s 2010 convictions for money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Prosecutors argued in June before the Austin-based Court of Criminal Appeals that the convictions be reinstated. But the appeals court said in its 8-1 ruling it agrees with the lower court findings, which said as a matter of law, what prosecutors proved in DeLay’s case did not constitute either offense.

The charges were related to corporate donations to DeLay’s political action committee that prosecutors say were illegally funneled to some Texas House candidates in 2002.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/texas_appeals_court_upholds_delay_reversal/

[samsingh]

1. who's even kidding that the judiciary is objective

is this had been a democrat, the reversal would have been instant.

[calimary]

2. They sure love their crooks down there, don't they?

No wonder the good guys can't get a decent break there (or at least that's how it seems, to this outside observer).

[Gothmog]

3. Court of Criminal Appeals is controlled by the GOP

I love this line from the dissent http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66130

"You can always tell when an opinion is written with the outcome decided before any legal analysis is done because it reads like a medical report written by a doctor who has never conducted a physical examination of the patient. This is precisely how the court of appeals’ opinion in this case comes across."

[Ash_F]

4. 8 pubs, one dem

http://www.texastribune.org/directory/lawrence-meyers/

According to this Meyers was a Republican for most of his career. I wonder what made him switch?

[Gothmog]

5. He is running for Texas Supreme Court

He is trying to move as a democrat to the Texas Supreme Court which deals with civil (non-criminal) matters