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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Justice delayed is justice denied in this case. I ask you treat this case with dispatch and render decision forthwith.
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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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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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Without those disclosures or your authority to make inquiry of grand jury members, we cannot go forward on that matter.
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We're discussing it. Everything is on the table -- except compromise.
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Bob feels foolish. All he had to do was ask to go to the Galleria or ask to go to Galveston and they probably would have given him permission.
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Bob feels foolish about doing what he did. All he had to do was ask to go to the Galleria or ask to go to Galveston and they probably would have given him permission.
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Bob Durst has trouble showing emotion. Bob Durst feels deeply. He has feelings. I like Bob.
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Everybody who becomes a judge has done something in their past. They've represented one side or another. If they took the oath of office and believe in the oath and impartially administer justice, that's all you can ask for.
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We want a trial right away. We want a trial by the end of the year.
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Bob was horrified at some of the things that he did, and he has tried to block from his mind, pretty successfully, some of the details.
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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.
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I don't know that the jury had to like him, they just had to believe that he was right on the facts.
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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.