Growing support for dismissal of charges against Gov. Perry [View all]

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Source: KVUE-TV Austin

AUSTIN --Some of the nation's best-known lawyers and legal scholars will file a request in state district court Monday for a judge to dismiss felony charges against Gov. Rick Perry.

The 14 participants include well-known Republicans —former U.S. Solicitors General Ken Starr and Ted Olson, for example —but also Democrats such as former state Supreme Court Justice Raul Gonzalez.

Jeff Blackburn, founder and chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, which has worked to free defendants who were wrongly convicted, is also joining in the effort, according to the request.

Read more: http://www.kvue.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/09/exclusive-support-for-gov-perry-growing/18783501/