Now here’s a whopper:

One of the victims – or someone close to the victims in the Dr. Chitale case (the Ennis doctor that sedated patients, took advantage of them, squirted semen on one of their faces, got probation) – has said that Congressman Joe Barton, R-Ennis, admitted to there being photographs involved in this case.

Now this is huge because this source says Barton himself said it.

Guess that’s why County Attorney Joe Grubbs has sued state Attorney General Greg Abbott to keep from information and documents in the Chitale case from being released.

Here’s what was posted:

I infact had a face to face discussion with Joe Barton on the case involving Joe Grubbs and the fact that his office is currently involved in a lawsuit against the AG’s office to deprive the victims of Aniruddha Chitale documents they are legally entitled to. At first mention of Chitale’s name Joe Barton said, “He’s the doctor who took photos of those women while they were under anesthesia.” Since photographs have never been mentioned publicly I was startled by this statement. Despite the fact that Joe Barton continued on to say that he avoids any perception by the public that his office might have any influence one way or the other over the DA’s office it was obvious that he had been priviledged to some details of the case that I had not been priviledged to. I was only there to ask him to request that Joe Grubbs’ office abide by the State of Texas’ ruling and the open records act since he is a representative of the citizens of Ellis County and would therefore be concerned with the rights of all those citizens.

It’s ironic that of all of my blogging and news reports, there have been two trials in the past two weeks involving sexual assault suspects. That’s unheard of for these cases to go to trial. It must pain assistant prosecutor Patrick M. Wilson to forgo plea bargaining in exchange for these trials. (one of which, defense attorney Mark Griffith secured a not-guilty verdict for his client in a jury deliberation record of four minutes)

That’s not to say all plea bargains are bad. It’s like annexation. Some annexations are good and needed. Some are not.