Ronnie Earle Subpoenaed

It's a fight all right. But it takes place in a courtroom -- not the O.K. Corral.

"Lawyers for indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on Tuesday subpoenaed the prosecuting Texas district attorney [Ronnie Earle] in an effort to show he acted improperly with grand jurors."

Earle has been shopping for grand juries.

The first one indicted DeLay for a crime that did not exist.

Dick DeGuerin, DeLay's attorney, filed a motion to have those charges dismissed.

Earle then came up with money laundering charges. A second grand jury decided against an indictment of DeLay. This really made Earle mad, and for some reason the jury's refusal to indict was not made public.

A motion filed last week said Earle "'incited' the foreman [William Gibson] of the first grand jury to violate grand jury secrecy by talking publicly about the case - in an effort to influence grand jurors still sitting".

"The lawyers said Earle then spoke about the case with members of the first grand jury, whose work was finished, to get their opinion of what they might have done if they had known their conspiracy indictment was flawed."

"Earle then submitted the grand jury opinions to the third grand jury to persuade it to hand down the money laundering indictment."

Prosecutorial abuse -- fancy term for "dirty tricks" from the "Earle of Injustice".

Power Line has the letter Dick DeGuerin sent to Earle.
--LynZee