Posted on 02/10/2018 6:59:08 AM PST by Elderberry
The motions for dismissal approved by 54th Criminal District Judge Matt Johnson offer defendants no possible avenue for expunction of their record, nor does the language of the order hold any hope to recover damages in a civil rights case.
Notice that the reason ticked off in the form is “other,” and adds the missive,
and for cause would show the Court the following:
While probable cause for the Defendant’s arrest and prosecution remains, based on continued investigation, the State is exercising its prosecutorial discretion in dismissing this matter in order to focus its efforts and resources on co-defendants with a higher level of culpability.
“People are entitled to an expunction (expungement) of their arrest record if the DA dismissed a case stating that there was no probable cause. Here, the language on the dismissals prevents expunction. The probable cause language on the dismissals is also aimed at the civil rights lawsuits. If there was probable cause for arrest, they can’t recover damages in a civil rights lawsuit for false arrest,” said Millie Thompson, an Austin attorney who is representing defendants arrested at Twin Peaks on May 17, 2015, who were charged with engaging in organized criminal activity that led to capital murder, and/or aggravated assault.
Obviously, the industrialists, merchants, and developers who actually grease the wheels and stoke the economic engines of the City of Waco and the County of McLennan have stepped in with some heavy handed demands to protect the treasuries of their municipal corporations from the fall-out of a catastrophic series of decisions and their related events following the debacle of a government operation gone completely berserk and out of control.
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Translation: “We perverted the law and what we did was illegal. In order to protect ourselves from consequences of our illegal actions, we will pervert the law again because it’s what we’re good at. At least that’s what our pet judge tells us.”
This is completely wrong to do.
I would refuse that document. Is there a way to do that?
Is probable cause a blank check? No limits on police or prosecutorial conduct in making the arrest or what followed?
That bomb got diffused rather easily didn't it?
Shut up Citizen, and do as you are told.
The dirty dealing continues.
“I would refuse that document. Is there a way to do that?”
Plead guilty.
A pox on these criminal prosecutors, judges and their families.
A pox on the murdering pimping drug-running pedophile biker gangs that shoot up a family plaza on a Sunday afternoon endangering innocent women And children!
Yet, Waco keeps electing and hiring these thugs.
Then they shouldn’t mind the civil payouts.
“We perverted the law and what we did was illegal. In order to protect ourselves from consequences of our illegal actions, we will pervert the law again because it’s what we’re good at. At least that’s what our pet judge tells us.”
Sounds like Obama’s DOJ/FBI and his left over smug thugs in both agencies.
“The motions for dismissal approved by 54th Criminal District Judge Matt Johnson offer defendants no possible avenue for expunction of their record”
I don’t think that’s true. A person can petition to have even the record of a conviction expunged.
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