Posted on 12/06/2017 6:22:39 PM PST by Elderberry
The stonewall in Waco is starting to crumble. Lawyers keep throwing pieces of paper at it. The papers are heavy with words.
Four defense lawyers in the Waco Twin Peaks Mass Murder case threw motions at McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna yesterday. David Conrad Beyer who represents Billy Jason McRee; Brian Bouffard who works for Jorge Daniel Salinas; Robert G. Callahan, II acting on behalf of William Aikin; and Clint Broden for Matthew Clendennen all filed motions that make it incontrovertible that the District Attorney’s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been covering up the truth about the mass murder for the last 31 months. Together, they have been using their official powers and have spent at least millions of taxpayer dollars to frame men and women they know to be factually innocent of any crime while at the same time declining to prosecute slam dunk murders.
Just this autumn Reyna and his criminal co-conspirators have repeatedly lied in court and encouraged federal, state and local police witnesses to lie in court. There are only three real questions about all of this shameless, official criminality by Reyna and his trusted assistants: Why are they doing this and what makes them think they can get away with it? Don’t they know what prison is like for cops and prosecutors who frame innocent people?
The leading faction of the Waco defenders, including the attorneys named above but excluding Casie Gotro – who is the only one of them who has gone to trial so far – are defending their clients by shoving Reyna into a corner and rat packing him. Next they are going to put Reyna in a witness box and expose his character.
(Excerpt) Read more at agingrebel.com ...
The ghosts of innocents be watching these trials.
IBTG & strac6
Yes you are!
More of the old fool Aging Rebel writing the websites in support of drug-dealing, murdering motorcycle gang thugs... and FReepers foolish enough to post them.
I won’t bother to repeat all the rationality as to why this is all BS, except to leave you with one thought.
Of course they are all innocent. Just like all murderers, child abusers, drug dealers and the other convicts in prison. If you you don’t believe all these scum of the Earth are innocent.... just ask them... or read the drug addled websites, articles and posts supporting them.
No more from me on this.... for a number of reasons. It’s like arguing with a drunk. It doesn’t do any good, and they’re never worth your time.
I’d say good luck, but the people advocating for these drug-dealing, murdering, motorcycle gang thugs really don’t deserve it.
By the way, one last thing. All the motions and filings are legal BS. At most they might get a recusal of Reyna, because of the legal preference to avoid even any appearance of taint.
They may look good to the Great Unwashed, but they are legally meaningless. Basing a motion on the fact that an elected official has political aspirations???? Wow. Whoda taut???
Gee, I must have missed that class at Georgetown.
However, even if they get a replacement of Reyna, no big deal, because nothing will change the fact that these armed, drug-dealing, murdering motorcycle gang thugs still killed people.
All these motions are only to try to make everyone forget how guilty the scum are... and after awhile, there will be trials on the facts, not the BS PR.
Endit
I agree with your analysis of the motorcycle gangs. They were and are drug dealing violent thugs. I do not regret their demise in the least.
My problem is the cops setting up a perimeter of fire around Twin Peaks. If they wanted to stop violence they would have been in Twin Peaks in full uniform. They knew some bad Sh-t was coming down. Why were they outside instead of inside?
Something is just not right about this unless the cops were complete idiots following orders of an even greater idiot.
I do not know. I do know something is not right.
Thanks for the update
In a brief hearing Tuesday, Dallas attorney Clint Broden sought to recuse 54th State District Judge Matt Johnson from presiding over a hearing in which he will seek to disqualify Reyna and his office from handling the case of former biker Burton George Bergman.Johnson declined to voluntarily step down from hearing the disqualification motion against Reyna, so retired State District Judge Joe Carroll, of Bell County, was appointed to hear the motion to recuse Johnson.
Carroll took the matter under advisement, giving parties on both sides until Friday to file briefs. He said he will rule by Dec. 8.
That remains to be seen. Maybe mañana.
The FR thread you initiated that ended up being sent to 'Smokey Backroom' due to no fault of your own;
And I'm used to them changing Forums on articles. I just do a Waco keyword search to find them.
thanks & marked
A visiting judge denied a request Friday to remove 54th State District Judge Matt Johnson from hearing a request to disqualify McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna from prosecuting Twin Peaks shootout defendant George Bergman.
Retired State District Judge Joe Carroll, of Bell County, was appointed to hear the matter and signed the denial Wednesday before it was filed Friday.
How in the heck can Johnson not be recused from presiding over a hearing involving his former partner in business?
I thought the standards were along lines of; if it merely looked like there could be conflict of interest there was apparent (enough) conflict.
That's to head off the excuse making "but I would never do such a thing" sort of response wherein the excuse maker possibly believes his own B.S. but is blinded to how bias inherent to personal & professional relationships can blind one to their very own biases(!).
DPS attorney claims Reyna urged Ranger to withhold evidence in Twin Peaks trial
A Texas assistant attorney general said in a secretly recorded conversation that McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna urged a Texas Ranger to withhold evidence from Twin Peaks defendant Jacob Carrizal's trial team and said Reyna is "deluded" and can't be trusted.A four-minute audio recording, recorded by Carrizal's attorney, Casie Gotro, was filed Friday by Twin Peaks biker George Bergman as part of a motion to "determine the scope of withheld discovery."
In the recording, Gotro is speaking with Assistant Attorney General Christopher Lindsey, who serves as a legal liaison between the Department of Public Safety and local prosecutors. The Texas Rangers are an arm of the DPS. ...
[snip] ...Lindsey told Gotro that Reyna's office was not "assuming their responsibilities" when it comes to Twin Peaks discovery and that the office was "double dealing" and "hiding things," as heard on the recording.
Lindsey said the Ranger told Lindsey that he and Reyna got into "a bit of an argument" because the Ranger thought certain items were subject to discovery and Reyna, who disagreed, told him to "hang onto" the evidence.
"At the end of our conversation, I told him, 'You need to stop talking to Abel. You need to stop talking to Jarrett. They are not on our side,' " Lindsey said on the recording. " ... You can't trust your own local prosecutor? Not in this case. Nope. Not even a little bit."
Lindsey told Gotro that soon after he was assigned to the Carrizal case, "it became immediately apparent" that her accusations that Reyna was withholding evidence was true.
"Abel is going to start pointing the finger at my guys," Lindsey said of the Rangers and DPS officials involved in the investigation. "We know full well, and I don't want to be in a situation that when this thing craters, and it will, we get caught in the blast zone."
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