Who Has More Delegates?

Barack Obama emerged with a majority of the state's at-large presidential nominating delegates and possibly a majority of all Texas delegates.

But Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters vowed Sunday to continue the fight for Texas delegates all the way to this summer's state party convention, promising to cut his lead in delegates.

The actual number of delegates awarded to Obama and Clinton will not be official until the state party convention meets June 5-7 in Austin. The results of Saturday's regional conventions were still being tallied Sunday, but Obama was winning about 58 percent of the delegates to the state convention.

Chuck Rosenthal Found In Contempt Of Court

It seems that ole Chucky Boy got off lightly.

A federal judge on Friday ordered former Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal to pay $18,900 in sanctions after finding him in contempt of court for deleting more than 2,500 e-mails that had been subpoenaed for a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Additionally, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt determined Scott Durfee, general counsel for the district attorney's office, was jointly responsible for paying $5,000 of that, finding Durfee failed to appropriately advise Rosenthal on how to comply with the subpoena.

Both Rosenthal and Durfee have until April 30 to pay their respective fines.

Some people didn't get off so easily when he was DA.

Chuck Rosenthal's Ex-secretary Quits

Kerry Stevens decides to do IT HER WAY:


Chuck Rosenthal's former secretary has resigned rather than report to the new job to which she was assigned by his replacement.

Kerry Stevens, who became widely known as the object of Rosenthal's desire following the release of hundreds of his private e-mails, told the district attorney's office that she was retiring effective Monday. She has been on authorized leave since she was informed she would be reassigned to the grand jury division.

Why leave her fate in someone else's hands?????

Priscilla Slade Takes Plea Deal

Priscilla Slade will not be facing prison after all. She will avoid a prison sentence if she pays back $127,672.18.

In addition to repaying the money, Slade will also be given 10 years of deferred adjudication in exchange for the "no contest" plea. That means the finding of guilt will not be on her record if she completes probation. If she violates probation, the conviction would be put on her record and she could be sentenced to up to life in prison.

It seems that Priscilla was able to work out a very sweet deal for herself considering the amount of money she was accused of stealing.

Sickle Cell Association Theft

Some crimes are just sickening:

A former executive director for the Sickle Cell Association of the Texas Gulf Coast was formally sentenced Tuesday after being convicted of stealing thousands of dollars from the nonprofit agency.

Kenneth Garrett Beatty, 42, was placed on 10 years' probation and ordered to serve six months in the Harris County Jail. A jury in state District Judge Susan Brown's court convicted Beatty last week of a lesser offense of third-degree felony theft, rejecting the original charge — theft of more than $200,000 — which could have landed Beatty in prison for life.

A second defendant charged in the case, Willie Carlean Cruse, 49, of Crosby, who previously served as the agency's financial director, has already pleaded guilty to theft of more than $200,000 and will be sentenced by Brown next month.

How low can one stoop?

Was He Insane?

A jury will resume deliberations Tuesday on whether Joshua Royce Mauldin was insane when he placed his infant daughter in a microwave oven.

The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for 3½ hours Monday after hearing closing arguments. Mauldin is accused of placing his daughter in the oven in what the defense says was a fit of insanity.

The prosecution told jurors that Mauldin put his daughter in the microwave because the infant was the only thing connecting him to a wife he wanted to leave.

Hooray For Texas

WASHINGTON — Texas corralled $2.2 billion in special projects from the federal government this year, including $294,000 for a Houston zoo program and $22 million for an Army gymnasium near El Paso.

DA Fights Autopsy Release

Harris County prosecutors are trying to block the release of Diego Ortiz' autopsy.

Ortiz and Hernando Torres were shot and killed, after Joe Horn says he saw them break into a neighbor's house.

Pasadena police have said both men were shot in the back. Their autopsies were sent to the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

But county officials don't want it made public, saying it's part of a pending criminal investigation. So far, no charges have been filed against Mr. Horn.

Nooses On The Loose

Another sick and twisted individual found the need to create a noose:

A Houston Fire Department cadet was dismissed from the academy after being accused of making and displaying a noose during a training class last month, authorities said.

The cadet, whose identity was not released, made the noose and then tied it around a Gatorade bottle during a class in February, said HFD Executive Assistant Chief Rick Flanagan.

It is too bad that people like this suffer from such low self esteem that they try to encourage hatred.

Houston Murder Conviction Tossed

The state Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday tossed out the sentence of a Houston man convicted of murder and drug dealing six years ago, saying he had ineffective legal assistance.

Aaron James Hall, 32, was convicted of murder in 2002 and sentenced to 65 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Eric Alvarez, 25, during what prosecutors said was a drug deal gone bad.

He also was convicted of conspiracy to deliver more than 400 grams of cocaine and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

But the appeals court agreed with the trial court that his attorney allowed information about his juvenile record to be used to enhance his possible sentences when it should not have been permitted. The appeals court said new sentences are needed for both convictions.