[JJ_Folderol]

Beat me to it by mere minutes!

[mad_as_he$$]

:.....The closer I got looking into it, the more I realized that this was a justice of the peace acting as a magistrate rather than as a justice of the peace. So I thought it would be most appropriate to handle it like we would any other recusal.”

Clown court is in session. Rights be damned.

[don-o]

Waco attorney David Deaconson was hired by the county to represent Peterson and to assist with Twin Peaks-related motions, subpoenas and other legal matters. He also is serving as liaison between biker defense attorneys, the courts and Stubblefield.

Does this seem odd? Why would a defense attorney agree to let a county employee "carry his water" to the courts?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Retired judges should stay retired.

[redgolum]

I am beginning to wonder who the Waco cops are working for. A rival biker gang?

[House Atreides]

I wonder how long the Waco “authorities” can make this thing stretch out? This thing is whipping along at glacial speed...and none of the little bits of new information that comes out make the “authorities” look any better...it all just adds more information that makes the Waco situation appear to be a mass miscarriage of justice.

[House Atreides]

“...The closer I got looking into it, the more I realized that this was a justice of the peace acting as a magistrate rather than as a justice of the peace. ...Peterson set unreasonably high bonds and said he was doing so to “send a message” about the gravity of the incident. He also complained that Peterson signed off on what Broden and others have called “cookie-cutter, fill-in-the-blank warrants” for the bikers’ arrests.

Waco attorney David Deaconson was hired by the county to represent Peterson...
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Jeez, so the “justice of the peace” who Waco authorities used (”acting as a magistrate”) to start the whole persecution going has now been assigned Waco government funded defense counsel?

So begins the lawyering up process for those involved in this criminal enterprise carried out by Obama’s DOJ operatives (e.g., BATF) and their puppets in local Waco government.

[Cboldt]

Interesting article. A few observations and remarks:

Hensley and Callahan (Broden's gopher) disagree whether Hensley said she would recuse. My impression is that Hensley, working with Stubblefield, is attempting to rehabilitate the impression that she would not be impartial. Stubblefield could appoint Hensley. Why doesn't he? She's right there in the same office, etc. No need to pull some good ol' boy out of retirement.

The judges don't know how to hear examining trials, at least not fresh in their work experience. What is so hard about finding probable cause?

I wonder what the "17 other cases scheduled in Peterson's court and those set in the courts of Justice of the Peace David Pareya and Waco Municipal Judge Chris Taylor" are

Stubblefield hasn't heard any negative criticism of the way the Waco PD and courts have handled the incident. Is that credible?

To the contention that "examining trials are not needed unless defendants are in jail and seeking another way out," note that an examining trial is moot upon indictment, because an indictment is an incontestable finding of probable cause. Examining trials are useful when defendant wants a peek at the state's evidence (accused tend to avoid this, because they have to expose their defense), and when the accused is in fact innocent of the accusation and the state doesn't have probable cause.