Texas Association Of Business Reindicted
The Texas Association of Business has been re-indicted by a Travis County Grand Jury stemming from its activities (specifically fronting a direct mail campaign) during the 2002 election cycle.
The new indictment is necessary because the previous indictment was thrown out. Travis County DA Ronnie Earle says the new indictments address the concerns of the jurist who tossed the original charges.
The Statesman has more:
The re-indictments are an attempt to fix objections by State District Judge Mike Lynch, who in June dismissed a similar indictment and threw into question Earle’s four-year prosecution of the business association.
Lynch concluded that the business association’s mailers did not expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates under the Texas election code, which he called “an archaic, cumbersome, confusing, poorly written document in need of serious legislative overhaul.”
[...]In his ruling, Lynch further wrote that the prosecution’s legal theory that the business group coordinated its efforts with other political groups is a “convoluted maze” that did not give defendants adequate notice of what they were charged with.
“You simply cannot make a silk purse out of this sow’s ear,” Lynch concluded about the original indictment.
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