Re:Texas Sues GM for UnlawFulLy Collecting and Selling Dri...
by muaytimbo on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:46PM
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I don't know anything about this, but indictments mean literally nothing. You can "indict a ham sandwich" as the line goes.
Re:Texas Sues GM for UnlawFulLy Collecting and Selling Dri...
by mikeyouse on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:51PM
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Cool - which is why I expanded the post to include all sorts of other evidence of crimes. And indictments don't mean "literally nothing" -- they mean that a prosecutor convinced a grand jury that they had enough evidence to bring charges against you, no matter how catchy the slogan from some judge from 40 years ago happens to be. As I'm sure you can appreciate, the rules of evidence and general criminal case law has changed pretty dramatically since the 1980s.
Re:Texas Sues GM for UnlawFulLy Collecting and Selling Dri...
by burkaman on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:53PM
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In this case he narrowly avoided trial by agreeing to pay significant restitution to his victims, do community service, and attend a legal ethics education course. He is a rich person with significant resources, he would not have agreed to this settlement if there wasn't a good chance of conviction.
https://apnews.com/article/paxton-indictment-texas-d5e57fc6c...
Then afterwards nearly a dozen of his staffers whistleblew to the FBI about his relationship with an Austin-based real estate developer who was committing serious crimes with Paxton's blessing and likely with kickbacks --
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/07/ken-paxton-impeachme...
That developer was indicted on a number of serious Federal charges where it came out that he renovated Paxton's home for free and covered up Paxton's affair with one of his other staffers: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/08/nate-paul-indictment...
Which ultimately resulted in an impeachment trial where the Texas GOP compeletly beclowned itself to acquit an obvious crook because they agree with him politically.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/16/ken-paxton-acquitted...