Even as attorneys for Fort Bend County Judge KP George are doubling down on their allegations of prosecutorial misconduct against District Attorney Brian Middleton, prosecutors have filed motions of their own seeking that George’s lead attorney be disqualified because of a potential conflict of interest involving the theft of money from George.
The District Attorney’s office has also appointed prominent Houston attorney and media legal analyst Brian Wice as special prosecutor in George’s cases.
In motions filed last week, Jared Woodfill and Terry Yates, attorneys for George in his charges of misappropriation of identify and money laundering, expanded on their earlier motions accusing Middleton of moving to indict George out of personal animus after the two had a political falling out when George was still, like Middleton, a Democrat. In June, after the indictments, George switched his party affiliation to Republican…