Star-Telegram
June 4, 1987
Witness tells of DWI case payment
AUSTIN (AP) – A Waco railroad engineer testified yesterday that he paid $5,000 to have two drunken-driving cases “taken care of” in McLennan County and assumed they had been dismissed.
Lloyd Perry, testifying in the federal bribery trial of McLennan County
District Attorney Vic Feazell said he was arrested in August 1984 and October 1984. In both cases, he hired Waco attorney Don Hall and paid him cash.
“He said he would handle my case, and if it was not to my satisfaction, he would refund the money,” Perry testified.
Perry said Hall never told him what happened in the cases, but he never heard any more about the DWI charges.
He said Hall called him after the October charge and said the case had been taken care of.
“I assume he meant it had been dismissed,” Perry said.
A previous witness, Waco attorney Dick Clark, testified that he asked Hall, a former McLennan County district attorney, for help in at least three DWI cases, Clark said he knew that Hall was a former law partner of Feazell and also had supported Feazell in his campaign for district attorney.
The government will continue to present its case against Feazell until at least the middle of next week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Frels said.
Defense attorneys have said their case will take at least a week.
This is the second week of the jury trial in which Feazell is accused of accepting bribes from attorneys in exchange for dismissals of their clients’ cases or for reduced sentences.
Feazell has denied the charges.
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