The prosecution rested today in the perjury trial of discredited Texas drug undercover cop Tom Coleman, who is charged with stealing gasoline from the county and lied about it.

The hearing in which Coleman is accused of making false statements dealt with the Tulia drug busts, in which he was the key witness, but the charges against him do not relate to those now-discredited convictions. Coleman was accused of taking upwards of 100 gallons of gas from a pump used by county vehicles in Morton while driving a pickup truck that was not a county vehicle.

"The significance of the cost of the gas isn't what's important," special prosecutor Rod Hobson said. "It's that he stole the gas and lied under oath and then made a second lie about when he knew charges were filed."

Grits for Breakfast has the latest live-blogging installment of the trial here.