
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?"
You're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead. |