Sympathy for the DeLay

Via Josh Marshall and the Associated Press:

There have been a lot of political gambits on the part of both DeLay's lawyers and Special Prosecutor Earle. Here's a new one:

Defense attorneys argue that DeLay has been vilified in liberal Travis County, which was split into three different congressional districts as a result of a redistricting map DeLay engineered.

Aww...poor DeLay...worried about vengeance from people he's marginalized.

God only knows what hoops they'll jump through in the actual selection of the jury.