Breaking: Second judge out for DeLay trial

[sabra]

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/breaking_news/13072825.htm

Second judge out for DeLay trial

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas - Two days after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay won a fight to get a new judge in his case, prosecutors on Thursday succeeded in ousting the Republican jurist responsible for selecting the new judge.

Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub recused himself after District Attorney Ronnie Earle filed a motion asking for his removal from the case.

Schraub said he will ask the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court name a judge to preside over DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering trial.

State district Judge Bob Perkins, a Democrat, was removed from DeLay's case Tuesday after DeLay's legal team cast doubt on Perkins' ability to judge the case fairly because of more than $5,000 in contributions he's made to Democrats.

[Tennessee Gal]

1. BWWAAAHAHA!

:rofl:

[halobeam]

6. Now we have to find a judge who didn't contribute to any party

LOL... unless they contributed to Independents. OMG... this is a joke.

I couldn't even have the heart to tell my children about this. The system is f**ked all the way around the block.

[MissB]

2. Serves him right.

Delay should know better than to shop around for a judge.

[CottonBear]

3. OMG! Judge shopping isn't going so well, is it Tom?

:rofl:

<snip>

Schraub said he will ask the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court name a judge to preside over DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering trial.

State district Judge Bob Perkins, a Democrat, was removed from DeLay's case Tuesday after DeLay's legal team cast doubt on Perkins' ability to judge the case fairly because of more than $5,000 in contributions he's made to Democrats.

Earle said in his motion filed Thursday that Schraub has made more than $5,000 in contributions to Republican candidates, including to Gov. Rick Perry, a DeLay ally, which calls into question Schraub's impartiality in the case.

Prosecutors had asked for Schraub to recuse himself or appoint another judge to take his place. The motion said that Schraub could ask Perry to appoint the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to assign a judge to conduct a hearing on the motion.

more...

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/breaking_news/13072825.htm

[cassiepriam]

24. Where do you find a virgin judge?

[Brundle_Fly]

grabs popcorn.

:patriot:

[Brundle_Fly]

4. grabs popcorn.

:patriot:

[Beetwasher]

5. What Can We Except from The Chief Justice Though?

:shrug:

[DemExpat]

11. Yeah, I wonder!

But love the circus unfolding.

:kick:

DemEx

[Jane Austin]

17. Every Person on the Texas Supreme Court is a Republican.

Here are a couple of former members:

Alberto Gonzalez
Pricilla Ownen

[CottonBear]

27. Will they all have to recuse themselves and throw the case to the feds?

:shrug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

34. At this point, who knows?

We all saw this coming when DeLay wasn't just smacked up side his head for judge shopping. Round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows. :crazy:

[underpants]

7. LOLOLOLOLOL

too funny.

[stop the bleeding]

8. Delay's ass is leaking

:hurts:

[Walt Starr]

9. BWAAAAA

:popcorn:

[HillDem]

10. LOL!

I wonder how many judges they'll have to go through.


Oh yeah and- Eat it Tommy Boy

[Wilber_Stool]

12. Musical judges.

My favorite game.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. I call your judge and raise you.

[Justitia]

14. This is vital - Schraub said he would've picked a judge OUTSIDE TRAVIS CTY

Schraub said he was going to choose a judge outside Travis County! WHY?!?! This crime falls within the jurisdiction of Travis County, no other. As such, the trial should be held in the capital.

Earle was simply heading him off at the pass, so to speak.
If he had been allowed to pick a judge outside the correct jurisdiction, he would clearly be jury shopping in some RW stronghold - with NO COMPELLING REASON - other than to handpick partisan jurors.

Good move, Earle - don't let up!

[FreedomAngel82]

30. That's exactly what he is doing

He's trying to find a judge that is friendly towards him and won't hold him to his crimes. Than DeLay can go around and claim that he was so innocent and the democrats in Texas can't defeat him politically so they go after him this way like he was. :eyes:

[yellowcanine]

15. Is Judge Roy Bean available? I hear he is impartial. Here is a link for

the good judge.

http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/papr/du_roybean.html

[KansDem]

39. I don't know. Will DeLay's trial take place west of the Pecos?

:rofl:

[yellowcanine]

41. Sounds as if it could end up just about anywhere including Wash. D.C.

After all the money was actually laundered there, right? Can you imagine DeLay with a mostly black jury?

[melissinha]

16. I'm confused

Cause I thought that Perkins, upon the request of DeGuerin had said he would defer to Schraub who then asked retired Judge C. W. Duncan, who then decided that Perkins not hear the case, so now they are back with the administrative judge that Perkins deferred to in the first place????

Perkins referred the decision to B.B. Schraub, presiding judge of the third administrative judicial region. Schraub on Monday assigned the case to Duncan.

Perkins---> Schraub ---> Duncan--- no to Perkins---> Schraub?

[Justitia]

22. Yes. Duncan was only for the Perkins motion.

Schraub then said he would pick a judge from OUTSIDE TRAVIS COUNTY to actually hear the case. Travis County is the correct jurisdiction for this crime. Schraub said he would pick a judge intentionally outside the jurisdiction of the case, allowing DeLay to jury-shop in a RW stronghold most likely.

Earle stopped him by asking for his recusal before he could do that.

Thank God.

[melissinha]

26. AHHH

So Duncan said NO to Perkins referred decision regarding new judge back to Schraub who was indicating he would go out of jurisdiction, so Earle headed him up to recuse himself to keep it here...


Sure hope it stays here, cause we got ourselves some judges who have no connection or motive to deny lady justice from spanking Mr. Delay...

[CottonBear]

29. Are there other judges in Travis Co. that can hear the case? n/t

[Justitia]

36. Sure. Plenty of repub ones too. Just don't try to fool around on

jurisdiction thru the back door.

Next up from DeLay & DeGuerin's bag 'o tricks: Motion to Change Venue

[Justitia]

37. yup, you got it. Fighting dirty tricks already. -eom

[tgnyc]

18. Tit-for-muthafuckin' tat!

[sufrommich]

19. I think it will work out well

that the judge in this case is so carefully picked.That way when Delay is found guilty,the reps will find it difficult to point fingers and whine that the fix was in.No matter who the judge is,the evidence is against him.

[newscott]

20. Take that!!!!!

Now about elected judges again. I mean, WTF?

[LisaM]

21. You know, I was thinking about all the judges who donated to the GOP

and what to do about it.

Perhaps we can get Alito banned for the same reason. If he gave any money to Republicans, I don't think he can be fair.

[B Calm]

43. Yes the Senate should look into Alito's donations!

[fasttense]

23. Look what the judiciary has turned into. It all started with the Supremes

in 2000, picking our president for us. If judges can pick their politicians, why shouldn't politicians pick their judges? Round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows.

[cassiepriam]

25. Becoming theater of the absurd.

[Lexingtonian]

33. not 'judiciary'- the Texas judiciary, specifically

You know, those people bought and paid for by Dallas oil money sitting over trials involving laws bought and paid for in the Texas legislature by Dallas oil money.

The more embarrassed and exposed the whole corrupted Texas system of governance, the better.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. And here I thought DeLay was innocent!!

If he's as innocent as he claims why is he trying to find a judge he likes? What an ass.

[Stephanie]

31. So now Democrats are barred from being judges?

That's what it's coming down to.

And why doesn't Earle have to recuse himself from the case? He's donated to Democrats.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

35. So did DeLay's lawyer for that matter.

:)

[Stephanie]

40. That's who I meant

I mixed him up with Earle.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

42. Gotcha

This entire thing is so bizarre it's easy to get confused.

[Gloria]

32. But when it comes to the Supreme Court...it doesn't matter, RIGHT???

It's not about the nominee's politics and utterances, it's such a SACRED appointment!

Ha! Wimpy Dems, do you really believe that Alito SUDDENLY thinks people have a right to a trial on discrimination if they've met the requirements? Or that suddenly Griswold and Roe are peachy keen????

Let's see, I see pro-Alito ads, and don't hear a peep out of any Repub Senators or the Dobson crowd. WHY??? Because Alito is lying and they know it. He's their boy.....

But, we're supposed to "deliberate" and give him a chance, etc etc.

SCREW EM

[Lochloosa]

38. And the obvious question....

Who did Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson contribute to?



On September 14, 2004, Wallace Jefferson made Texas history as the first African American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He was first appointed to the Court in 2001 to the seat formerly occupied by United States Attorney General Al Gonzales, and was elected in 2002 with 60% of the vote in the contested Republican primary, and 56% of the vote in the contested general election. Governor Rick Perry promoted him to Chief Justice when Chief Justice Phillips retired after 16 years of distinguished service.

Wallace Jefferson is the son of William Jefferson, a retired United States Air Force major, and Joyce Jefferson of San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from John Jay High School in 1981 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy from James Madison College at Michigan State University in 1985. He earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1988 from the University of Texas School of Law.

Chief Justice Jefferson developed an early interest in civil appellate law as a student of the late constitutional scholar, Charles Alan Wright. In 1989, he joined the appellate section of Groce, Locke and Hebdon in San Antonio. He founded his own appellate law firm with Tom Crofts and Sharon Callaway in 1991. Crofts, Callaway and Jefferson soon became one of the preeminent appellate practices in Texas.


This wouldn't be him at the bottom of the page....humm

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JEFFERSON, ANDREW
HOUSTON,TX 77002
10/28/1997
$500
Texas Democratic Party

JEFFERSON, ANDREW
HOUSTON,TX 77002
ATTORNEY
10/26/1998
$250
Texas Democratic Party

JEFFERSON, ANDREW
HOUSTON,TX 77002
ATTORNEY
3/7/1997
$250
Assn of State Democratic Chairs

JEFFERSON, ANDREW L
HOUSTON,TX 77002
ATTORNEY
2/13/1997
$300
Democratic National Committee

JEFFERSON, ANDREW L
HOUSTON,TX 77002
ATTORNEY
6/30/1997
$300
Democratic National Committee

JEFFERSON, ANDREW L
HOUSTON,TX 77002
JEFFERSON & ASSOCIATES
4/17/1998
$250
Moseley-Braun, Carol

JEFFERSON, ANDREW L MR JR
HOUSTON,TX 77002
SELF EMPLOYED
6/7/1999
$1,000
Gore, Al

JEFFERSON, BOBBY T MR
DALLAS,TX 75231
THE STAUBACH COMPANY/CORPORATE REAL
5/11/2000
$1,000
Bush, George W

JEFFERSON, DWIGHT
HOUSTON,TX 77025
VERNER & LIIPFERT
6/30/1999
$1,000
Bush, George W

JEFFERSON, HARRY
DALLAS,TX 75243
H&K DALLAS INC
7/16/1998
$300
Terry, Randall A

JEFFERSON, LAMONT A
SAN ANTONIO,TX 78232
HANES & BOONE LLP
5/4/1999
$500
Bush, George W

JEFFERSON, LAMONT A
SAN ANTONIO,TX 78232
HANES & BOONE LLP
9/28/1999
$250
Bush, George W

JEFFERSON, LAMONT A
SAN ANTONIO,TX 78232
HAYNES AND BOONE LLP
11/19/1997
$200
Gonzalez, Charles A

JEFFERSON, LAMONT A MR
SAN ANTONIO,TX 78232
HANES & BOONE LLP/ATTORNEY
10/28/1999
$250
Bush, George W

JEFFERSON, LARRY
HOUSTON,TX 77030
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
5/7/1999
$1,000
Gejdenson, Sam

JEFFERSON, LARRY
HOUSTON,TX 77030
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
10/29/1999
$500
Gejdenson, Sam

JEFFERSON, LARRY
HOUSTON,TX 77030
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
10/28/1999
$500
Gejdenson, Sam

JEFFERSON, LARRY DR
HOUSTON,TX 77030
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE/PHYSICIA
3/5/1999
$1,000
Bradley, Bill

JEFFERSON, LIMAS
SEABROOK,TX 77586
JEFFERSON ASSOCIATES
1/14/1998
$250
Jackson Lee, Sheila

JEFFERSON, LIMAS MR
SEABROOK,TX 77586
JEFFERSON ASSOCIATES INC
4/7/1999
$1,000
Hutchison, Kay Bailey

JEFFERSON, LOUISE
SEABROOK,TX 77586
1/14/1998
$250
Jackson Lee, Sheila

JEFFERSON, MARK
BEAUMONT,TX 77706
10/19/1998
$250
Lampson, Nick

JEFFERSON, WALLACE B
SAN ANTONIO,TX 78216
9/28/1999
$250
Bush, George W

JEFFERSON, WALLACE BERNARD
SAN ANTONIO,TX 78216
CROFTS CALLAWAY & JEFFERSON PC
1/19/1998
$333
Gonzalez, Charles A

JEFFERSON, WALTER
HOUSTON,TX 77056
8/28/2000
$500
Inhofe, James M


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[Rosco T.]

44. Goose, meet Sauce... heh . heh . heh . n/m