Prosecutor: Jury Should Hear Perry Felony Case
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AUSTIN (AP) — The special prosecutor leading the felony abuse of power case against Gov. Rick Perry says the charges deserve to be heard by a Texas jury, not quashed on constitutional grounds.
In three court filings Friday, Michael McCrum rejected Perry defense team's previous arguments that the law being used to prosecute the Republican governor is unconstitutionally vague.
Perry has asked the presiding judge, Republican Bert Richardson, to declare the case unconstitutional and throw it out. McCrum says it should go to trial.
The governor was indicted by an Austin grand jury in August on two felony counts of abuse of power.
He's accused of threatening, then carrying out, a veto of funding for public corruption prosecutors. That came after the unit's Democratic head refused to resign following her drunken driving conviction.
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