Posted on 11/20/2017 10:57:51 AM PST by Elderberry
A retired visiting judge ruled Monday that subpoenas issued to employees in the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office were improper, then refused to hear any additional testimony on a reported FBI investigation of the DA.
Judge Douglas Shaver, the retired 262nd District Judge in Harris County, quashed subpoenas that named employees of District Attorney Abel Reyna and invalidated the subpoenas seeking specific evidence, which meant none of Reyna’s employees would be forced to testify on the issue raised by F. Clinton Broden, a Dallas lawyer who is representing a Hewitt man in the Twin Peaks cases.
In late October Reyna acted to rescuse himself from the prosecution of Broden's client, but Broden has argued that actions Reyna took immediately after the deadly May 2015 Twin Peaks shootout are still relevant to the case.
Broden suggested Monday he had rebuttal on the motion to quash, but Shaver would have none of it.
“I’ve already ruled on that issue. If you have something new, I’ll hear it, but if not, we’ll move on,” Shaver said.
Broden had a list of people who were called to honor subpoenas in a hearing Monday morning, but just a couple of minutes into testimony from the first witness Broden called, the judge abruptly ended the hearing, sent the witness off the stand and refused to allow Broden to call any other witnesses.
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Can you spell “kangaroo”?
Unbelievable.
“The three specially appointed prosecutors who have been assigned to the case Broden is defending were in the courtroom as well.
Shaver spoke with all four lawyers trying to reach a consensus for a date for the neat round of hearings and for the start of the trial for Matthew Alan Clendennen, Broden’s client.
“Now we need to set a date for the real motions and the speedy trial issue,” Shaver said.
“We can start today. I’m ready and Mr. Clendennen is ready,” Broden announced.
“They (the prosecutors pro-tem) inherited this mess,” Broden said.
Broden said if the prosecutors pro-tem will just look at the evidence against his client, they’ll see Clendennen did nothing wrong on the day nine bikers died and two dozen more were injured in a biker brawl outside a local restaurant.
“They (the state) could dismiss that case if that’s the case,” Shaver said.
They all agreed the next hearing would happen March 5 and 6.
“We can’t do anything in April because the other Twin Peaks trial goes to re-trial,” Shaver said, referring to the case of biker Christopher Jacob Carrizal, whose first trial ended in a hung jury earlier this month.”
The good old boy network is alive and working well there I see.
Expect justice only if one side is guilty. If the other side is; it will be protected by the system.
Once corruption is so deeply rooted; only an act of God can fix it.
Clearly this judge and the DA’s office has a lot to hide so they brought in this ringer to do the dirty work. No one is fooled but no one can do anything about it either I bet.
TG, whatever nonsense you have to say about these comments, do me a favor and keep it to yourself.
This corruption, by the way, is also what we are seeing in the GOPe. Very little, if any, difference.
This is third world one sided justice. Judges and DAs are always on the same side. It is destroying the system. These are motions upon which a record should be made for obvious appeals.I look for this fiasco to get worse and worse.
Looks like Corruption goes deep
After 2-1/2 years they are discussing the trial time frames of only 2 out of 155 indictments?
Speedy, ain't it? /s
Wow, they don't even try to hide he was bought and paid for.
Crooked.
A Sleeping Lawyer and a Ticket to Death Row
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/15/news/mn-53250
“I knew John Benn. I knew he wasn’t competent,” Shaver said in a courthouse interview in late June. The judge said Benn had the appearance of “a heavy drinker. . . . His clothes looked like he slept in them. He was very red-faced; he had protruding veins in his nose and watery red eyes. . . . I can’t imagine anyone hiring him for a serious case.”
So Shaver appointed a second lawyer, Sandy Melamed, to assist Benn.
Melamed had never worked on a capital case before and remained deferential, even though he saw Benn’s limitations.
“After the hearing, West said in an interview that she thought she was going to testify about her discussions with the FBI agent and how Reyna asked her to pull the cases of at least 50 friends and supporters so he could dismiss them outright or have special prosecutors appointed who would dismiss them.
Waco attorney Robert Callahan, who represents Twin Peaks biker William Chance Aikin, and who attended Monday’s 20-minute hearing, said other Twin Peaks attorneys likely will seek to disqualify Reyna from prosecuting their cases based on allegations he made the decision to arrest 177 bikers for political gain.
If bikers like Clendennen, who allege they did nothing wrong at Twin Peaks, can show Reyna ordered the arrests and also has dismissed cases for donors and friends for political gain, they can establish a pattern that Reyna has made himself a witness in the case and should be removed from prosecuting them, Callahan said.”
One may see a Youtube interview with a former legal assistant who, like Julissa West, worked in the law office of the partnership of Reyna and 54th District Judge Matt Johnson, named Jane Carter. One need only click here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLFuxjWgIIk&feature=youtu.be
“Can you spell “kangaroo”?”
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