No crime occurred, and no crime was charged.
We've been right all along that Ronnie Earle charged a crime that didn't exist and there's 30 years of precedent that backs that up. We want to get to trial and hope once we do, a jury will find Tom Delay didn't do anything illegal.
The Court of Appeals unanimously held that Ronnie Earle had charged a crime that didn't exist at the time the crime occurred. ... It simply wasn't a crime.
I said from the first day I saw the indictment that Ronnie Earle was charging a crime that didn't exist. And the 3rd Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with me.
There's no crime that's been committed. I am confident that, when we get to trial, we'll show that Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.