A defense lawyer for Fulshear Mayor James Roberts, who was recently acquitted on misdemeanor charges, lashed out at the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Department and the local district attorney's office at the Tuesday night city council meeting, InstantNewsKaty.com is reporting.

Roberts had been accused, reporter John Pape says, of illegally imposing a lien on a local property owner and illegally ordering a survey with city funds.

Richard Tate had harsh words in his 10-minute talk, Pape wrote:

Calling the Fort Bend Sheriff’s Office’s investigation “incompetent” and the district attorney’s prosecution “abusive” and “unprofessional,” one of the attorneys on Fulshear Mayor James Roberts’ defense team presented a report during Tuesday’s city council meeting on Roberts’ recent exoneration on criminal charges ...

Speaking before a packed council chamber, Tate also called the prosecution of Roberts “a perversion of the justice system.”

“Just when I thought the prosecution had reached a new low in its abusive tactics, another abusive tactic emerged. In the end, the elements of unfairness that were displayed by the prosecution throughout the investigation, the grand jury presentation, the indictment and then the conduct of the trial were too long to mention,” Tate said.

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