Whiskey Wednesday: Book 'em Dano

Thursday, October 20, 2005

DeLay turns himself in: photographed, fingerprinted and released on $10,000 bond .

At 10/20/2005 9:42 PM, Shebang said...: Is this photo his jail photo? He's smiling. What an ass face.
At 10/21/2005 9:46 AM, ThomG said...: Yeah, this is his "mug shot". I'm not sure when they stopped using the little placard with numbers on it. It must have been recently, because they certainly wouldn't make any special exceptions for a member of Congress...
Karissa, I think the charges against him are outlined in the article. I'd say he's been caught red handed; but, of course, it's never that simple.
At 10/21/2005 12:44 PM, ThomG said...: Ah, I get it. Well it is best to keep your money clean.

Today, DeLay's attorney asked for a new judge - they want to get the case out of "liberal" Austin - because the judge assigned to the case had contributed to MoveOn.org, which DeLay's defense contended is selling t-shirts with DeLay's mugshot on them. The contribution was made over a year ago, MoveOn doesn't sell such shirts and as the DA points out, this would be like telling a judge who donated to Crimestoppers that he couldn't take a burglary case.