DeLay's First Charge Won't Stick, then Ronnie Earle Changes the Charge

Powerlineblog makes a note:

Earlier today, Tom DeLay's lawyers moved to dismiss Ronnie Earle's conspiracy indictment on the ground that Texas's conspiracy statute had no application to the election laws until it was amended in 2003--subsequent to the 2002 election cycle that is the subject of the indictment. The Austin Statesman notes that the term of the grand jury that Earle used to indict DeLay expired last week, and the statute of limitation may have run in the meantime.

And after that realization by DeLay's lawyers, Liberal DA Ronnie Earle decided to drop the conspiracy charge and charge DeLay with money laundering by a 7th grand jury that Liberal D.A. Ronnie Earle was able to convene in such short order. This is when after 5 grand juries came before the District Attorney who failed to give him the indictment he wanted. And so, finally, the 6th grand jury was able to come up with a conspiracy charge. Yet, sniveling Liberal DA Ronnie Earle didn't know about conspiracy statute that was amended in 2003 had no bearing on 2002 when it was the year that was the sujbect of the indictment.

Powerline makes a note about how a grand jury works for District Attorney:

As most of our readers probably know, grand jury proceedings are ex parte, which means that the DA has the grand jury all to himself. The target of an investigation, like DeLay, doesn't get to be represented by counsel and participate in the proceedings. Now that the indictment has been leveled, however, the playing field is even. DeLay gets to hire a lawyer--he's hired a very good one--and he gets equal time with the Court.

Now, you know why I call Ronnie Earle a Liberal. You see, kiddies, in this grand jury scheme, the accused, whether a Democrat or a Republican, cannot defend him/herself in front of the grand jury much like how most court system works.

This is how the Liberal D.A. Ronnie Earle works his magic by abusing the system and media.

And oh, if dear old Ronnie Earle indicted 12 Democats and 3 Republicans during his 28 years as District Attorney, so does that mean Democrats break Texas laws with a frequency 4 times greater than Republicans?