{"id":1884,"date":"2005-09-30T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2005-09-30T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T18:04:13","slug":"video-grand-jury-foreman-defends-delay-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Grand jury foreman defends DeLay indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n

\n<\/a>In a recent interview on MSNBC’s Hardball, Tom DeLay explained how District Attorney Ronnie Earle had duped the grand jury into returning an indictment by saying “Oh sure. You can indict a ham sandwich. This is a ham sandwich without the ham.”<\/p>\n

DeLay has spun this indictment as a partisan attack by Ronnie Earle. At the same time, he downplays the role of the grand jurors as mere puppets of the prosecutor.<\/p>\n

Now, in an interview<\/a> with News 8<\/i> of Austin,the foreman of the grand jury, William Gibson, has stepped forward to defend the indictment:<\/p>\n

“It was not a rubber stamp deal. It was not an overnight deal. If we needed extra information, it was provided to us,” Gibson said.<\/p>\n

…
\nGibson thinks there is enough evidence to convict Delay.<\/p>\n

“We would not have handed down an indictment. We would have no-billed the man, if we didn’t feel there was sufficient evidence,” said Gibson.<\/p>\n

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\nThe evidence is there to prove Delay was involved in wrongdoing and also prove that he and his fellow grand jurors acted independent of political influence, Gibson said.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t Mr. Earle that indicted the man. It was the 12 members of the grand jury,” Gibson said.\n<\/div>\n

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