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To: Elderberry

Enough are charged that SOMEONE should demand their Constitutional right to a speedy trial. Heading toward half a year with vague charges and no evidence indicates they’re trying to concoct an elaborate justification for the incident. Should someone demand “charge me for real, evidence included, or let me go” they may avoid the unlimited-budget convict-at-all-costs attack being prepared, and help show others the way out too.


2 posted on 09/07/2015 2:41:56 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: ctdonath2

You believe we still have Constitutional Rights?


3 posted on 09/07/2015 2:46:12 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: ctdonath2
Nobody has been charged. Texas law allows arrest and detention on an accusation only (this is common), with upwards of six months between that, and being charged. Of course, a person can be investigated and charged before being first arrested.

The procedure of having a judge review the evidence state in the warrant is supposed to weed out arrest without probable cause; with examining trials being a backstop in case the magistrate judge is a rubberstamp. It appears Texas law allows "probable cause" without evidence anyway, as the statute has a "magic words" provision.

A good number of the accused have been trying to get out from under the cloud of arrest, using more than one legal path. All the judges encountered so far say probable cause exists, based on the statements in the cookie cutter affidavit.

14 posted on 09/07/2015 3:12:09 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: ctdonath2

Lol, a six month delay before trial is not an unusual amount of time at all for a situation like this. People are really reaching for straws around here to try and prop up this conspiracy theory.


303 posted on 09/09/2015 7:24:25 AM PDT by Boogieman
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