Posted on 04/03/2018 4:48:56 PM PDT by Elderberry
Senior Federal District Judge Sam Sparks told the 136 plaintiffs who are suing various government defendants, and in four cases the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant, to patiently wait for justice while federal prosecutors in San Antonio try to stitch together a case against former Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Jeffrey Pike and former club vice-president John Portillo made out of old “reality” television episodes.
Sparks’ reasoning is that evidence not yet revealed in the racketeering case against Pike and Portillo may somehow excuse the unconstitutional detention and imprisonment of scores of innocent citizens following the entirely avoidable violence at the restaurant 1053 days ago. That reasoning ignores the pronouncement of the judge presiding over that San Antonio case, David Alan Ezra, that there is no connection between what happened at Waco and the charges against Pike and Portillo. So far, the federal case has concentrated on a couple of murders that happened nine and 13 years before the Twin Peaks.
Who knows? Maybe the San Antonio prosecutors are also sitting on the secret to turning cow pies in gold which is what Waco, McLennan County, lame duck prosecutor Abel Reyna and various other defendants are going to need to pay the bill if more than 200 victims of official incompetence and tyranny are ever allowed their days in court.
Thomas P. Brandt, the loathsome pettifogger representing Reyna and the county, convinced Sparks to wait another 90 days before allowing the civil cases to proceed. Brandt’s claim to fame is managing to stretch out resolution of a case titled Morgan v. Swanson, which most lawyers know as the “Christian Candy Cane Case,” for nine years until it was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
In further delaying justice, Sparks told complainants attorneys that his calendar is full through September 2020 so he couldn’t
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