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...
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He gave us a full and fair hearing, and I'm very encouraged.
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He looks at the law and he sees what he wants to see, and he prosecutes what he thinks ought to be prosecuted, rather than what it is.
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There is no conspiracy. Just because people agree doesn't make it a crime. There has to be an agreement to violate the law. There was no agreement to violate the law.
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That's astonishing, astonishing that they would get a grand jury to indict and allege there is a list and then they have to admit in open court the first time they appear in open court that there is no list.
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I guess he was released because we filed a lawsuit against them.
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If you did nothing improper, you should not be concerned about answering these questions.
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If you read the indictment, you can't tell what Tom DeLay is charged with doing.
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Before the first indictment you tried to coerce a guilty plea from Tom DeLay for a misdemeanor, stating the alternative was indictment for a felony which would require his stepping down as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.
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Generally speaking, Mr. DeLay has put all his confidence in the legal system that these charges will be resolved in a timely fashion.
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I don't think there's anybody who needed me worse.
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I don't mean to make a pun, but justice delayed is justice denied in this case.
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In my experience I have never seen the type of vituperative responses and opinions expressed by 80 percent of the large jury panel as are present in this case.
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The Court of Appeals unanimously held that Ronnie Earle had charged a crime that didn't exist at the time the crime occurred. ... It simply wasn't a crime.
fair trial
All we want is a fair trial and a fair tribunal.