Posted on 08/31/2018 3:16:32 PM PDT by Elderberry
In a phone hearing this morning, before 7 a.m. Pacific Time, 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother in McLennan County Texas indefinitely continued the trial of Bandidos Motorcycle Club San Antonio chapter president Tom Modesto Mendez.
Mendez had been scheduled to stand trial September 10. He is accused of first degree felony riot for allegedly participating in the so-called “Biker Brawl” at the now defunct Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco on May 17, 2015. The brawl erupted after a pack of about 20 Bandidos and their supporters were ambushed by about 70 members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club and their supporters in a police instigated, premeditated attack.
Mendez would have been the second Bandido chapter officer to be tried for attending a Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents meeting at the restaurant that Sunday. Dallas chapter president Christopher Jacob Carrizal was charged with numerous felonies, including nine counts of murder, last fall. The trial lingered for more than six weeks. Prosecutors blatantly withheld numerous items of evidence – much of it exculpatory. Eventually the jury hung and judge Matt Johnson declared a mistrial.
Sua Sponte
Strother acted sua sponte, which is lawyer’s Latin for acting without a motion, when he indefinitely postponed the Mendez trial today. Strother told prosecutors Gabriel Price, Robert Moody, Gabrielle Massey, Hilary LaBorde and Staci Scaman that he “felt uncomfortable with the case” because it “could result in an absurd verdict.”
Although Mendez is formally charged with rioting, he is actually being charged, de facto, with three counts of murder. Prosecutors claim to have evidence that Mendez fired a gun during the melee. From a distance, the case against him looks like a desperate attempt by lame duck district attorney Abel Reyna to justify his handling of more than 200 criminal cases that resulted from the tragedy.
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“a pack of about 20 Bandidos and their supporters were ambushed by about 70 members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club and their supporters in a police instigated, premeditated attack.”
So, is that what happened? Who is telling the truth?
I think The Aging Rebel’s version of the truth is closer to “the Real Deal” than the WacoTrib or any of the other newspapers.
Do you know of an article?
“So, is that what happened? Who is telling the truth?”
There’s a lot of weird problems with this prosecution.
Aside from the unconstitutional dragnet arrests of 177 people for murder there’s a lot of problems with the physical evidence.
I recall one of the people had their charges dropped because they were accused of using a pistol to shoot someone who died with .223 rounds in their body.
And there was some poor fool who was accused of shooting someone and they were let go because the police video showed the guy on the ground right in front of the police the whole time.
And some couple that was just driving by on the freeway were arrested because they were on a motorcycle.
I don’t know what happened during the shooting but what happened after the shooting was downright weird.
The evidence was irretrievably contaminated when law enforcement wiped (rather than merely copied) the phones of everyone in the area they could grab. The defence should have been entitled to subpoena that.
That’s evidence suppression.
There have been many, many, many articles.
Do a keyword search on Waco, or Reyna, or Biker.
don-o posted a lot before he left and then I picked up the slack.
But there have been many other posters as well.
Here's a link to a site I recently stumbled upon that has links to a lot of articles.
https://www.looneyconrad.com/media-waco-bikers-melee.html#sthash.zFOAMGU8.HJ0Fi0jb.dpbs
Dirty cops fear (cell phone) cameras far more than they fear guns.
My guess is that the cops allowed people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time (and who just tried to flee the shooting) to bleed out.
There was never going to be a conviction on any charge in a courtroom because they got caught withholding evidence. The Waco authorities can't rectify this because the video would show them killing innocent bystanders.
The defense lawyers realized this from the beginning and nobody was ever going to cop a plea.
When do we get to the premeditated police riot charges?
Some time after Hell Freezes Over.
Thanks.
Thanks good read again
Why did he leave?
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