The NEW charge was brought, because the OLD charges didn't constitute a crime at the time they were allegedly committed. You'd think a prosecutor would know he couldn't charge for a crime committed prior to the law being put into effect.
You just MIGHT want to note that it took TWO grand juries to bring the new charges, and that the second GJ wasn't informed that the FIRST one had returned a finding of "NO Bill", and that the foreman of the second GJ has publicly stated that he was going to find DeLay "guilty" before he had heard the first iota of evidence; because he "didn't like" some ads that DeLay ran in his last election campaign.
Sounds to me that this case is built on a foundation of partisian sand.
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