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The Texas DA That Got Cheney and Gonzales Indicted Has Gone Missing.

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Willacy County prosecutor Juan Angel Guerra stumped a presiding judge and attorneys for clients as high up as Vice President Dick Cheney when he failed to show up to court on his own grand jury's indictments.

The no-show infuriated attorneys who'd spent the day milling about with what they'd hoped would be slam-dunk motions to quash the cases.

And it put Presiding Judge Manuel Bañales in a position he said he'd never been in before.

"At the very least I expected the district attorney to be here," Bañales said, asking Guerra's office manager, "Do you know where he is?"

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