No unanimity surfaced at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals when it issued its controversial ruling dismissing a charge of abuse of official capacity against former Gov. Rick Perry. The court’s majority also upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss the additional charge of coercion of a public servant against Perry, a one-time Republican presidential hopeful.
In a scathing dissent, Judge Lawrence E. Meyers wrote that the majority had “decided to employ any means necessary to vacate the two felony counts against Governor Rick Perry.”
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