Six years after former Texas House of Representatives candidate Casey Gray was charged in two separate cases with violating a restraining order and four days before he was supposed to finally go on trial, the prosecutor filed motions to dismiss the cases.
The judge presiding over the cases in Walworth County, Wisconsin obliged. Court records show the cases were dismissed April 12.
Samuel Berg, the prosecutor on the case, did not return repeated calls seeking comment.
Gray ran against District 81 State Rep. Brooks Landgraf in the Republican primary March 1, 2022. Landgraf, who was seeking his fifth term, won in a landslide, earning 80% of the votes cast, his largest victory to date.
During the campaign Gray repeatedly accused Landgraf of having multiple affairs. He also accused Landgraf of spreading misinformation about Gray’s military service record and claims of “stolen valor.” However, claims of stolen valor and Gray actually came up during Gray’s 2018 run for the congressional seat held now by August Pfluger.
The OA was contacted by more than a dozen people who have sent hundreds of pages of documents that question some aspects of Gray’s military service and whether he has worked for the CIA, as he has said. Those people have also suggested Gray has exaggerated the nature of a helicopter incident in Korea and the injuries he sustained.
Gray repeatedly declined to supply most of the documents asked for, instead questioning the OA’s motives.
“I find it appalling that you continue these unethical attacks to attempt to discredit my military service. You are very much in the business of attacking military members and their service and these absurd questions that seem to come from internet trolls and from Landgraf supporters are telling of your bias,” Gray said via email in February 2022.
Three different defense attorneys withdrew from the case over the years.
At one point, a warrant was issued for Gray when he failed to appear in court. Gray emailed the judge to say he was serving in the Army in Ukraine and “due to Russian missile attacks on the infrastructure I was unable to travel or have power to make a call to the court.”
The warrant was later quashed.
