Jerry Eversole Trial – How Corrupt is Harris County Texas?
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What caught my attention in this trial is that in the Houston Chronicle coverage there is mention of a lot of names that overlap all things Anna Nicole Smith trials.
At one point the Houston Chronicle says; “So how corrupt is the local scene? It all depends on what you compare it to, said Rice University political science chairman Mark Jones. “If you reference Chicago,” he said, “it’d be more similar. To Minneapolis? More corrupt.”
I have said many times since I return to Texas in 1990, what happened to “my Texas”, the one I grew up in and moved out of in 1977.
Who is Jerry Eversole? He is a County Commissioner in Harris County Texas that has been slammed with four federal indictments accusing him of accepting bribes and filing false income tax returns.
After demanding a quick and speedy trial after being indicted at the end of December 2010 and a three week trial in March 2011, the case went to the federal jury last Friday, March 25, 2011, with the defense led by fame Texas defense lawyer Rusty Hardin, deciding to put on NO defense. Rather it was the hint of the good ole boys and just friends helping friends like we do in Texas that Hardin rested on. Was it a gamble, yes per court analysts. Hardin of the fame J. Pierce Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith Probate fight way back in the early nineties, decided to take the same position that Steve Sadow did with Howard K. Stern in California. Very simply put, the U. S. government did not put on a case that Hardin felt was based on facts and so no defense other than friends do favors for friends in his closing arguments was his choice as a defense for Jerry Eversole.
The Houston Chronicle article also mentioned one of our old friends, Judge Tony Lindsay and the hot water her husband Jon Lindsay landed in 1993. That’s the year six-term Harris County Judge Jon Lindsay called it quits after being indicted for perjury, accused of lying on a campaign finance report and being accused by a federal convict of accepting a bribe to reroute a county road to boost the prospects of a housing development. The perjury indictments eventually were thrown out, and no criminal charges resulted from the bribery allegation. Still, Lindsay suffered a battering at the hands of then-County Attorney Mike Driscoll, who filed suit to remove the judge from office. Even that, however, was not enough to keep him out of office, as Lindsay went on to represent northern Harris County in the state Senate from 1996-2006.
The jury deliberated two hours on Friday and returned this morning and is deliberating again on the charges of alleged bribes cited by prosecutors included $17,000 Eversole received in landscaping, $30,000 in antique firearms, and $63,000 to pay off his mortgage. Eversole also was charged with filing false income tax returns in connection with the benefits.
Jerry Eversole’s friend Michael Surface also was indicted in December and is expected to go to trial in October. Defense attorneys maintain that prosecutors are “criminalizing” a 30-year friendship.
The other thing that caught my attention is the Judge Sharon Keller ongoing problems with the Texas state congress trying to impeach her and there has been another charge against her with the State Bar to disbar her, she was fined $100,000.00 by the Texas Ethics Commission, the highest ever fine, Jerry Eversole holds the second highest ever levied at a record $75,000 against him for campaign finance violations. If convicted Eversole could receive a maximum of 21 years in prison and $700,000 in fines.
Is this the beginning of cleaning up the Texas politics of hey friends help friends, or will it be business as usual and Jerry Eversole will walk this week?
Read the indictment and other papers filed before this quick trial and tell us if you think Eversole will walk?
12-20-10-Indictment (262)
12-28-10-Protective-Order (257)
1-10-11 Eversole Motion Limine (421)
1-11-11-Order-Allow-Additional-Motions (246)
1-11-11-Order-Setting-Deadline-Pretrial-Motions (241)
1-18-11-Order-Deny-Eversole-Request-Contact-Surface (247)
1-19-11-Motion-Severance-Trial.pdf (95)
1-24-11 Surface Motion Continuance (295)
1-24-11-USA-Response-Surface-Motion-Countinuance (236)
1-26-11-Surface-Reply-Continuance (365)
1-27-11-Order-Granting-Severance (247)
2-7-11-Order-Setting-Deadlines (250)
2-9-11-Eversole-Opposition-USA-Motion-Discovery (242)
2-9-11-USA-Motion-Discovery (270)
2-15-11-Eversole-Motion-Disclosure-Evidence (241)
2-16-11-Order-Granting-Part-Discovery (244)
2-17-11-Order-Granting-Motion-Disclosure (241)
2-28-11-USA-Trial-Memorandum (263)
3-6-11 USA Motion Limine (248)
3-8-11-Eversole-Response-USA-Motion-Limine (249)
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Not shocked to read the Judge Lindsay [the hubby] name amongst the corrupt
IMO [yes just my opinion] the Mrs. was heading into a little of her own 
when she took on/presided over the Bloggers suit on behalf of her good old friend Mr. McTard
PS,
Thought that was pompous ass Rusty in the pic to the right
Is the “Screw you, Rusty” that Rusty….
I don’t think too much can take the microscope in Texas Law.. It has been a very eye opening ride the last few years. I would compare it to Indonesia but there they try to make it look good at least.
I also feel that the Oquinn law firm was acting just like the others did and do..
It seems like our laws only apply to some now days.Hopefully this year people woke up to what they voted for and many are having second thoughts as people in state and local governments think they are above the law.WE just had a hit and run driver who killed someone,later came back 45 minuets,the police never did a breathalyzer or read this person their rights so the felony charges were dropped to misdemeanors with little time served.Talk about justice not seved.
#2 That is the same “Screw you Rusty”, of ANS fame….
Tennessee was recently voted the #1 most corrupt state in the nation.
Public Corruption: 18
Racketeering & Extortion: 11
Fraud Rank: 7
Forgery & Counterfeiting: 5
Embezzlement: 9
DEFINITELY GOOD ‘OL BOY around here! I could tell u stories! We recently had our local judge convicted for Racketeering & Extortion. Had a cop driving so drunk he wrecked into a parked car. Another cop (his buddy) was told to take him to the hospital. Guess what? No type of alc0hol test was performed and no charges! And on, and on, and on. Oh, they also make up their own laws around here!
It only ranked up to ten & I didn’t see Texas – can you just imagine living in one of those 10 states knowing what we know about Harris County? Almost all of them were southern states.
Whoops – just found Texas – #13
The jury announced at 1 PM they were hopelessly deadlock. The judge has offered to give the prosecution and defendant’s attorneys 30 mins more time to argue the facts to the jury and then ask the jury to deliberate again. No information as to whether Hardin or the prosecutor has accepted this offer… can we say the “good ole boy” is alive and well in Texas???
new article up
Texas is just another Vegas. Females who don’t tow the line are pushed out of the state and harassed, all under the guise that they care about them. Just read up on the millionaire in houston and you’ll see how controlling and manipulating this bunch is. I know at least fourteen women who have lost their children or have had their children turned against them because of the controlling corruption that pervades Texas. Money changes hands and little favors are done, you have to cater to the male prick waving or else. It’s pretty disgusting.