AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Indicated Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to skip his next scheduled court appearance because he’ll be out of the country.
In a motion Monday, Perry’s attorneys asked the judge to let him miss an Oct. 13 pretrial hearing due to “long-standing plans to be in Europe” all that week.
It says that, if Perry has to appear, the hearing should be delayed until at least a day after his return Oct 19.
An Austin grand jury last month indicted Perry on two felony counts of abuse of power for threatening to veto state funding for a public corruption investigative unit.
Perry issued the promised veto after a Democratic district attorney refused to resign following her drunken driving conviction. That drew an ethics complaint from a left-leaning watchdog group.
