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| Subject: Excellent! Criminal charges against Rick Perry to proceed Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:28 pm | |
| A criminal case against former Texas Gov. Rick Perry will go forward after a judge for the second time Tuesday rejected his request to throw out the felony charges against him.
Perry's lawyers filed a writ of habeas corpus in August, claiming that the indictment against Perry violated his constitutional rights of free speech, but a special prosecutor argued that a jury should hear the evidence. On Tuesday, District Judge Bert Richardson agreed with the special prosecutor and ruled that the case will continue.
The ruling states the court is "without authority to review the merits of (Perry's) pretrial" and that Perry's motion to quash and dismiss the indictment "does not challenge the sufficiency of the indictment."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/27/rick-perry-indictment/22427179/ |
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