It looks like Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales won’t have to worry about those indictments handed down on Nov. 17 by a grand jury in South Texas.
Administrative Judge Manuel Banales dismissed them as invalid today and gave Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra a stern warning to exercise caution as his term in office comes to an end, The Associated Press reports.
Guerra, whose term in office finishes at the end of the month, had accused Cheney, Gonzales, and six other defendants of bearing responsibility for prisoner abuse.
Banales did not rule on whether probable cause existed for the Cheney and Gonzales indictments, focusing instead on the fact that two alternate jurors were part of the panel even though they had not been properly substituted.
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