Judge Andrea Beall rejected Kenny Boy Paxton's "I murdered my parents, now I'm an orphan" claim that his constitutional right to a speedy trial in his security fraud case had been violated by the prosecution and so charges should be dropped.
Too bad she didn't add some snark about moving his trial UP from April to March if he really wanted to get this out of hte way.
Sidebar: One of the prosecutors in the case had a deal, reportedly, with Kenny Boy's attorneys. No trial, no time, no fines. If lead prosecutor Brian Wice scuttled that deal, good on him. If now former co-prosecutor Kent Schaffer worked on that deal and called it a win-win, fuck him. If he's now leaving the prosecuting team because he's butt-hurt, good for We the People of Tex-ass.
"To me, that was worse than a slap on the wrist. That was, 'gee, let's get you a cocktail, a hot meal and a breath mint.' And that wasn't going to happen on my watch,” Wice said.
Let's have an actual trial in April, not a sham plea deal that, for all of us.
Sidebar: I've asked Lauren McGaughy on Twitter, trying to figure out just how much a sham this was, if it even involved an actual guilty plea vs a nolo or even a deferred adjudication.
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