Re: Who Actually Sabotoged Earle's Prosecution Of Kay Bailey

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:06:06 -0400, Lex Dysic <nobody@xxxxxxxxx>
posted

>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
>


better link:
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1994-06-23/feature.html
.

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