Posted on 02/17/2018 6:58:03 AM PST by Elderberry
The first Cossack to face a trial jury in the Twin Peaks cases got his day in court by default when the new attorney representing the first defendant to stand trial in a second go-round due to mistrial declared he’s not ready for trial.
At that point, 54th Criminal District Judge Matt Johnson shifted gears and scheduled the trial of Cossack Cody Ledbetter as a result of vigorous pre-trial maneuvers by Ledbetter’s attorney, Paul Looney of Hempstead, who has an extensive criminal practice in Houston and the counties surrounding the Bayou City.
The case of Dallas Bandidos President Jake Carrizal ended in a mistrial in which numerous defense objections over concealed or withheld evidence that would tend to exculpate him led to many delays. Jurors were clearly not convinced he had anything to do with the murder of 9 men and the wounding of an additional 20 simply because he was wearing a 1%er patch on his jacket as he arrived at the head of a column of a dozen fellow Bandits.
A high court appeal for a speedy trial by Looney got a short shrift from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, resulting his motion to the trial court declaring that since he sees no inculpatory evidence that would tend to incriminate the Cossack, he sees no need for further delay to discover exculpatory evidence.
Looney has had great success in other cases, including the examining trial of a Brenham couple whom Waco Police arrested as they arrived at the scene of the violent debacle originally planned as a Confederation of Clubs meeting to rag chew events in the Legislative session in progress on that fateful day of Sunday, May 17, 2015.
Said Distorted member William English, an ex-Marine fresh from the fight with combat tours to his credit,
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The late screenwriting guru Syd Field thought that every proper, two hour movie had three acts and two plot points. The first plot point comes about 20 minutes into a film and ends act one. The second plot point pops up about an hour later and propels the story into act three. The real, tragic farce unraveling in Waco, Texas must eventually be a movie called Biker Brawl. Screenwriter and director Kurt Sutter will tell it like it was, as he always does.
Right now Biker Brawl is getting awfully close to plot point two.
Field was fond of telling dramatists to “pile on the complications” around plot point two. Here you go Syd.
Jake Carrizal will not be going back on trial April 2. Cody Ledbetter, represented by colorful Houston lawyer Paul Looney has the court date now. Carrizal’s current lawyer, Christopher W. Lewis of Dallas, asked Judge Matt Johnson for more time to prepare and Johnson gave it to him. Looney, who has been trying to get his client to trial for about 30 months jumped at the opportunity to get Ledbetter in court. Today Johnson gave him Carrizal’s date. For years, local District Attorney Abelino Reyna has been ducking Looney like Floyd Patterson ducked Sonny Liston so Looney and Ledbetter may yet have to wait.
And, in other movie news, when Biker Brawl is finally green lighted Looney will be portrayed by Wes Studi. Matt Johnson will be brought to life by Steve Buscemi. Kathy Bates will play Reyna. Stormy Daniels will show audiences assistant district attorney Amanda Dillon as few have ever seen her before and Paul Giamatti, in his creepiest role yet, will make children scream and women shudder as prosecutor Michael Jarrett. The Rock is said to be considering the role of Waco Tribune-Herald reporter Tommy Witherspoon.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
Most excellent casting!
Kathy Bates will play Reyna.
Retrying Carrizal looks like punishment by process. The first jury didn’t come close to convicting.
There are many more who's lives are on hold and/or have been destroyed by these officers and politicians.
Fourteen officers were present and armed with assault rifles on that day. Only three of the rifles have been tested by ballistics experts, leaving an additional 11 rifles untested
Gee, can't imagine why that is...
Three years, I haven’t seen a ballistic report showing whose gun killed/injured who. I know four were killed by police rifles, one by a Cossack handgun. The other four dead and all the wounded I don’t know.
IBTG.
This is getting Looney, seriously this is past ridiculous, all because some Hot Shot DA wanted to play Cop.
I don’t believe this fiasco was conceived at the local level.
BATF and the FBI appeared at the scene as if they had teleported.
OH SO do I, He was just helping out.
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