No basis to quash Perry indictment, prosecutors say
Tue, 2014-11-04 18:03
News Staff
Gov. Rick Perry has no legal right to receive a transcript of what witnesses told the grand jury that indicted him, prosecutors told a judge Monday. “Texas courts have permitted the veil of grand jury secrecy to be pierced in only a few instances,” special prosecutorMike McCrum and David M. Gonzalez argued in a brief. “Defendant Perry has not established the particularized need that is required.” The response to Perry’s earlier demand for a transcript came in one of two briefs prosecutors filed on the cusp of a pre-trial hearing Thursday. In a separate filing, prosecutors asked Visiting Judge Bert Richardson to deny Perry’s request to dismiss the indictment entirely.
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