I Have Been Living Right
Y’all, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a petition of discretionary review to review the reversal of Tom DeLay criminal conviction.
Honey, I have been paying the right preacher!
This means that the fat lady ain’t sang yet, and Tom DeLay’s pronouncements that he’s “been found innocent” is wrong, wrong, wrong. It could be overturned.
Now, here’s the fun part. There are 9 judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Six months ago, all 9 of them were Republicans but one judge, Lawrence Meyers, just switched to being a Democrat because Republicans make his skin crawl. For the court to grant this petition, at least 5 of them, or maybe all nine, voted that this reversal needs some attention. And that means some of the 8 Republicans is probably pretty sick of seeing Tom DeLay strut around like he’s never done anything wrong.
The state’s highest court on criminal matters announced that it would accept a petition asking it to consider whether a 2-1 decision by the Third Court of Appeals overturning DeLay’s criminal case conviction was appropriate.
The appellate court in September 2013 tossed a high-profile jury verdict, ruling that “the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain DeLay’s convictions.” In a dissent, the lone Democrat on the three-judge panel argued the evidence for a conviction was sufficient enough to convince a rational jury that criminal conduct had taken place.
This is great news for the State of Texas, the Travis County DA’s office, and Lady Justice.
And me. This is great news for me because I think Tom DeLay is a bigger crook than we’ll ever know.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
I bet Pete Olson is rooting against DeLay right now.
1Sweet – this made my day!
2No one better deserving of some prison time than old Tommy Two Dipper.
For this he should receive the death penalty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_0hxToe8s
Holy Gohmerts, YouTube, have you no mercy?
3Just so we don’t ever have to see that video of him “dancing” on that stupid show!
4R’uh R’oh, please don’t open that link, maggie. It’s the dolt dancing for which he deserves the death penalty. His graft and corruptions pales in comparison to that travesty.
5COOL! yes, DeLay has been a crook and worse. he has screwed his own district out of commuter rail money and he got caught playing the money game with a marked deck.
GOOD. Let’s hope Susan’s praying works on the Criminal Court judges…I will throw in mine for good measure.
I wrote about running against him and how he cheated even when he was guaranteed a win in my book “Better Times Ahead April Fool”…justice!
6Poor Cheryl Burke. The perfect example of being a professional, regardless of the circumstances. I had almost forgotten how truly bad that dance was. I recall seeing it the first time…. OMG. The man has no shame. Obviously.
7Hey, this is better than ice cream for dessert tonight!
8Miss Prissybritches, there’s failure, then there is eye ball bleach can’t overcome it failure. Both are overcome by irony at DWTS, when Tommy de Dufus is out bricked by Bristol the Behemoth. Ouch. Just ouch. Dear goddess, no. Just no.
Apologies again, maggie. I promise to never post a link that repulsive without a triple warning *** do not open *** eyeball bleach alert. Total failure on my part, and cannot begin to offer sufficient apology. Please accept my sincere apologies, and yes mama can soap my mouth for my failure, when a visual is worse than any string of curse words.
9Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice for they shall have their fill. (that’s you n Bubba, JJ!)
Dear me, even God can’t wait til Gabriel blows his horn. And if they DO overturn the appeals court ruling I may get seriously moved by the Spirit. Fortunately, I don’t much cotton to “liturgical dance” 😛
10Huh. That weren’t no liturgical dance.
11Having suffered through DeLay, we can hope.. he WAS my congresscritter for a while..
12People, please vote and make your friends and family do so as well. We have to Texas blue for good. Throw the crazies out on their rear ends pronto.
13May Delay be the first of thousands of wingnut dominoes in Texas to bite the big one.
14Aggieland liz-I got it on good authority,god is watching. This is the official memorandum from the big guy as told by S Silverstein-clean version.
http://nukabombshideout.blogspot.com/2011/05/vengeance-is-mine-poem-by-shel.html
15I had NO IDEA Mr Silverstein was a prophet. That sounds just like my friend the FSM; He’s subtle, and irony is his favorite!
16minor correction. the court of criminal appeals needs only four justices to grant writ, not five. It doesnt necessarily mean that they think the court of appeals is wrong in their decision
17I can imagine DeLay’s lawyer(s) counting the number of “friendly” judges on the appeals court as I type. It doesn’t surprise me that a lower court composed of two GOPers and one democrat overturned DeLay’s conviction. If he was ordered to jail by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, it would make my year, and I’d think Christmas came early this year. I’m a teetotaler, but for this, I’d consider purchasing a bottle of fine bubbly because it would be pah-ty time, for sure!
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