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Statements on Today's Rothgery Ruling

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Texas AP has, "Legal help too slow in Texas arrest, high court says," written by Mike Graczyk, via the San Antonio Express-News.A man whose life was turned upside-down by a wrongful arrest and weeks in jail should have been given access to a lawyer sooner so he could have shown the arrest was erroneous, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday. The high court ruled 8-1 in the case of Walter Rothgery. In 2004, three weeks after he arrived from Arizona to take a job managing an RV park in Gillespie County, Rothgery was arrested for carrying a gun as a convicted felon. No lawyer was provided at his first court hearing. The arrest, based on bad information in a computer database, left Rothgery unable to get a full-time job. And by the time he was indicted six months later, he was broke, unable to afford a lawyer, had his bond tripled and was jailed in a county lockup 100 miles from his home...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).