Now that’s a story you don’t see every day!
A Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife were charged on Thursday in an arson fire that destroyed their suburban Houston home last June, the judge’s lawyer said.
But in a bizarre reversal, prosecutors plan on Friday to seek dismissal of the indictments against the justice…
It appeared, the lawyer said, that a grand jury had voted the indictments precipitously over the objection of prosecutors.
District Attorney Charles A. Rosenthal Jr., who has been fending off calls for his resignation over amorous e-mail messages to his executive secretary and other sexually explicit and racially charged messages, issued no statement.
Good thinking on the ‘no statement’ part.
Update on January 18: it’s not just any DA, it’s the guy who defended the Texas law that criminalized homosexuality in Lawrence v. Texas at the US Supreme Court!
jon | 20-Jan-08 at 10:54 am | Permalink
From the Houston Chronicle story: