Now Ronnie Earle has what he was after, which was a mug shot.
Now Ronnie Earle has the mug shot he wanted.
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.
He's got what he wanted. There's no reason for this. It was pure retaliation on the part of Ronnie Earle. There he is. Take a good look at him.
It is important because it shows what Ronnie Earle is doing. He's just using the claimed authority of his office to bully people around.
I said from the first day I saw the indictment that Ronnie Earle was charging a crime that didn't exist. And the 3rd Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with me.
(Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle) is trying to keep this case hanging around long enough to affect the November elections.
What we're trying to avoid is Ronnie Earle having him taken down in handcuffs, and fingerprinted and photographed. That's uncalled for, and I don't think that's going to happen.
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.
Ronnie Earle, a local county prosecutor, is affecting the business of the United States by his foot dragging and his frivolous appeals, and we're not going to stop.
The bottom line is Ronnie Earle wanted the mug shot.
It's a frivolous appeal. Ronnie has taken every dilatory tactic available to him.
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.