LATE BREAKING NEWS: Judge removes Guerra as prosecutor for 5 of 9 criminal cases involving Vice President Cheney and Texas State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr.
Texas Rangers to escort Guerra to court Friday morning after having been found in Mexico
ROBERT WILCOX Editor/Reporter
LATE BREAKING NEWS: Judge removes Guerra as prosecutor for 5 of 9 criminal cases involving Vice President Cheney and Texas State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr.
Texas Rangers to escort Guerra to court Friday morning after having been found in Mexico
After being AWOL from the job and violating sections of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct - Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel "Johnny Guerra" has been replaced in five (5) of the nine (9) criminal cases he convinced a grand jury to file against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former U.S. Attorney Mervyn Mosbacker, state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., District Judges Migdalia Lopez and Janet Leal, former Willacy D.A. Gustavo "Gus" Garza, and District Clerk Gilbert Lozano, along with GEO Corp., and former warden David Forrest.
Presiding District Judge J.Manuel Banales has appointed Asst. Cameron County to Alfredo Padilla to handle the cases for Mosbacker, Lopez, Leal, Garza, and Lozano due to Guerra being absent from court.
The judge found Guerra violated Section 3.08 of the rules of professional conduct, in that a victim (Guerra) can't prosecute five of the cases, where he could be called as a wtiness.
Guerra has telephoned in from Mexico and Houston to selected Texas media outlets claiming he did not know he was supposed to be in court yesterday afternoon.
The Texas Rangers will likely wait for Guerra to cross the international bridge near Reynosa or catch him driving on U.S. 77 southbound from Houston; either tonight or early tomorrow. He will then be taken into protective custody and escorted to court in Raymondville tomorrow morning.
Assuming he is not AWOL again; Guerra could continue as prosecutor for Vice President Cheney, Gonzales, Sen. Lucio, GEO Corp., and Forrest.
Attorney Michael Cowen, who is representing Sen. Lucio, got the court to agree to a trial date of Dec. 8th, as Lucio wants Guerra to personally try the case he lodged against him.
Updated -- Thursday, Nov. 20 at 9:15 p.m.
He also brought up an interesting question. Why isn’t some group or organization in this county making some noise about the rarity of this bird? Shouldn’t a study be done to see if it’s becoming extinct, and should be placed on the endangered species list? And shouldn’t they also work to see if it will return to its former level? There, of course, are many of us who would say no to such an exercise, leaving it to nature to decide. But we also know this bird has a certain resiliency, it has always come back before.
Many of us also believe it’s a nuisance bird, and just wish it would be held in captivity until it meets its final days. So maybe that’s why no one is working very hard to keep it going, its just worn out its welcome after years of existing in Willacy County. One thing I will give this bird credit for, when it emerges it always seems to draw a circus, and is always in the center ring as the main attraction, though often that attention is unjustified in its seeming popularity. And, after the first day or two, things get back to normal as it disappears again, staying nice and quiet and peaceful without all its chatter and clucking.
Oh, did I forget to identify this rare bird? It’s the Johnny Guerra loon, but I think most of you already knew that.