Lawyers for Ousted TSU President File for Dismissal

Lawyers for the former president of Texas Southern University, Priscilla D. Slade, filed a motion last week to dismiss the criminal charges against her, claiming prosecutors acted illegally and unethically, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Mike DeGeurin, one of Slade’s lawyers, said prosecutors broke the law by leaking grand-jury information and violated state ethics rules by secretly videotaping meetings with Slade and others, including the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Alphonso Jackson, writes the reporter, Brian Rogers. DeGeurin also claims that her due-process rights were violated.

Slade was charged with two felony counts of misapplication of fiduciary property over $200,000 after an internal university audit conducted last year found that she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in university money on herself, Rogers writes. If convicted, she could spend life in prison, he writes.

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