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All we lack here is a dead body, and who knows? One might turn up yet. So far we have a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife indicted for burning down their suburban Houston house for financial reasons–and inadvertently torching a neighbor’s house in the process. Then the DA says there’s not enough evidence against them to go to trial, the foreman of the grand jury disagrees and accuses the DA of politics. Today, a judge dismissed the charges, though the grand jury foreman remains adamant. We could still use a hidden love child, drug dealing, or at least the "other woman" with big hair and oversize plastic-surgery boobs. But even without them, or the dead body, it’s still a pretty classic Texas case. Stay tuned. Bound to be more to come here.

UPDATE: Well, there is a little matter of $57,000 the judge illegally spent from his campaign donations for mileage reimbursement over three years. I didn’t realize gas was THAT expensive. And there’s still hope for the love child and the other woman, since the daily notes the judge has still not accounted for his absence the night of the fire.