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Judge, not AG, responsible for TYC prosecution delays

Before deciding on the new comment policy announced at the end of this post, I was initially hesitant to blog about the minor kerfuffle last week when the Texas Civil Rights Project criticized the Attorney General for failing to yet take to court the West Texas sex-abuse cases that spawned the Youth Commission's recent troubles. It seemed like a trivial, non-story based on outside speculation, not any new event or information, so my impulse was to ignore it.But then the press conference spawned a reaction story in the Midland Reporter-Telegram trying to portray the delays as an indication that the state's case was weak and couldn't really be proven. That BS deserves a response. We'll find out what the state can or can't prove when they get to court (at one point I was told by someone in a position to know that there was DNA evidence in one of the cases), but it's silly to claim the delay was because the case was weak when the AG has been trying to get the judge to set the case for trial for more than a year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).