Executive Branch
After Indicting Cheney & Ex-AG Gonzales, DA is No-Show in Court Today
Posted Nov 19, 2008, 07:48 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A strange prisoner abuse case in South Texas involving indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, two state-court judges and a former federal prosecutor got a bit more bizarre today, when the district attorney who brought it was a no-show in court.
Judge Manuel Banales, who is presiding over the Willacy County case, couldn't go forward with a hearing because District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra was missing in action. However, Banales promised to issue summonses, rather than arrest warrants and allow the defendants to waive arraignment, reports the Associated Press. The judge also told Texas Rangers to check on Guerra at his home and order him to appear in court on Friday.
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