{"id":188603,"date":"2010-08-25T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/25\/tom-delay-to-be-tried-for-corruption-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T01:11:00","slug":"tom-delay-to-be-tried-for-corruption-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/25\/tom-delay-to-be-tried-for-corruption-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Delay to Be Tried for Corruption in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He had asked for a change of venue, on the grounds that Austin was &#8220;too liberal,&#8221;but the judge decided that he could have a fair trial in Travis County, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7171743.html\">ruled against moving the trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, thee did not pass the laugh test, but I understand why the defense tried it, it loses them nothing if they lose.<\/p>\n<p>You move a trial when excessive pre-trial publicity taints the jury pool, not because they voted for the other party, and Delay&#8217;s corruption got no more coverage in Austin than it did anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this will turn out, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2005\/09\/30\/392\/37603\">according to the good folks at Talk Left<\/a>, they are not particularly impressed with Travis County DA (TX law has most corruption prosecutions being conducted by the DA for the Austin area), Donnie Earle, and Delay&#8217;s lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> good.<\/p>\n<p>Presumption of innocence be damned, this is a man well deserving of a couple of decades of jail time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had asked for a change of venue, on the grounds that Austin was &#8220;too liberal,&#8221;but the judge decided that he could have a fair trial in Travis County, and ruled against moving the trial. Honestly, thee did not pass the laugh test, but I understand why the defense tried it, it loses them nothing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}