Dick DeGuerin
Dick DeGuerin
Dick DeGuerinis a criminal defense attorney based in Houston, Texas, most notable for defending Tom DeLay, David Koresh and Robert Durst. In 1994, DeGuerin was named Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year by the State Bar of Texas Criminal Justice Section...
evidence outside present
I don't think it's make or break, but it's very, very important. We have other outside evidence to present.
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I am determined to put on record the steps taken by you and your staff to obtain a replacement indictment against my client, Tom DeLay.
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I would have told you a month ago we'd be in trial by now, but that was before Ronnie Earle pulled his shenanigans with his frivolous appeals.
believe jury
I don't know that the jury had to like him, they just had to believe that he was right on the facts.
crime
No crime occurred, and no crime was charged.
gloves
Now we can really take the gloves off.
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We think this was an accident. It would have happened whether the driver was stone cold sober or not. It was just an unavoidable accident. I think that, unfortunately, these young ladies stepped out in front of the car.
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We've been right all along that Ronnie Earle charged a crime that didn't exist and there's 30 years of precedent that backs that up. We want to get to trial and hope once we do, a jury will find Tom Delay didn't do anything illegal.
authority cannot forward grand inquiry jury
Without those disclosures or your authority to make inquiry of grand jury members, we cannot go forward on that matter.
mug ronnie
Now Ronnie Earle has what he was after, which was a mug shot.
mug ronnie shot
Now Ronnie Earle has the mug shot he wanted.
horse trial trying
It's like a trial horse - they're trying it out to see how it plays.
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It's so far afield as to what the case is about, he (Earle) is just using it to generate stories.
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It's a plea for prompt disposition, which has been our cry all along. We want to get this case tried, and when we get it tried, we're going to win.