Who Actually Sabotoged Earle's Prosecution Of Kay Bailey

Seems Kay Bailey got off because of a VERY friendly judge and some
strange legal procedures.

Earle had KBH dead on as several office workers, testified that KB did
use her office at the time (Tx State Treasurer) to carry out political
operations, illegal in the State. She ordered her subordinates to
destroy the evidence.

>From a newspaper article written by Miriam Rozen who had access to the
grand jury testimony:

"...during pretrial procedural wrangling, Judge John Onion announced
that he would make no decision before testimony began on the
admissibility of evidence --including material from the "pizza-box
tapes" -- that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle considered
critical. If the trial began and Onion refused to let the jury see the
physical evidence, Earle believed, it could torpedo his entire case.
The D.A. made a fateful decision: he declined to move forward with the
senator's prosecution. He later explained that he hoped to do so
later, presumably before a more receptive judge.

Judge Onion, though, wouldn't give him that chance. Onion instead
swore in a jury, then immediately ordered the panel to acquit the
first U.S. senator from Texas ever to come under criminal indictment.
The abrupt court-ordered acquittal left the voluminous evidence of
exactly what it was that Hutchison did -- evidence that fills four
walls of shelving in a locked, windowless room in the Travis County
D.A.'s office -- largely hidden from public view."

So, looking at this, KB got off very easy and because of Onion's
strange ordering of a trial by jury when the DA did not want it, the
testimony will never be made public, except for this newpaper report:

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/...23/feature.html


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