have any of the autopsy reports been released yet?
Posted on 07/25/2015 7:41:14 AM PDT by don-o
A local justice of the peace was removed Thursday from an examining trial in the case of a Hewitt biker accused of engaging in organized crime in relation to the shootout at Twin Peaks restaurant.
Joe Carroll, senior judge of the 27th Judicial District Court, granted a motion to recuse Justice of the Peace W.H. “Pete” Peterson from the case involving Matthew Clendennen after Clendennen’s attorney, Clinton Broden, filed a complaint against Peterson.
Peterson set the initial $1 million bonds for the 177 bikers arrested in the aftermath of the May 17 shootout, and he was on the scene that day to pronounce death and order autopsies on all nine bodies of those who were killed.
Carroll said Clendennen’s case should now fall to the next-closest justice of the peace, Dianne Hensley. Broden noted during the hearing that Hensley has said she will recuse herself because she doesn’t think she can be impartial.
If Hensley recuses herself, it will be up to Billy Ray Stubblefield, administrative judge of the 26-county 3rd Judicial Region, to assign the case to another court.
Hensley was not available for comment Thursday.
Broden’s complaint, filed June 2 with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, alleges Peterson violated several judicial ethical canons when he set the bonds for the jailed bikers. Broden has said his complaint is based on comments Peterson made to the Tribune-Herald after the shooting.
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Can you spell s-l-o-w w-a-l-k?
There’s got to be some prior interpersonal issues behind this.
Occam’s Razor. JP Peterson was a useful tool for DA Abel Reyna. Peterson is said to have taken directions on bail from Reyna.
Tip of the corruption.
Tip of the corruption? Give.e a break.
its telling that the next judge in line has already said she wont touch this with a 10 foot pole something very bad that we would like to think doesnt happen in america has happened in waco and the people who went all stalin on the bikers need to hang
The recusal motion was filed June 9, in the JP Court, Peterson's Court. Given that the decision described in the article comes from the 27th District, I suspect that Petersen refused to recuse himself, so Broden took the refusal over Petersen's head.
Once again, I thank you for bring clarity - the “reporting” of this thing is astonishingly bad.
This was no big deal and a no-brainer. Peterson did not resist it. Why should he have? He had nothing to lose.
These are not really big cases, as much as they are good newspaper copy. Really very routine.
The Conspiracy Cultists are seeing way too much here.
Make that July 9 and July 2, respectively (Recusal Motion, and complaint to the Commission on Judicial Conduct).
The motion was directed to him in the first place, but was decided by a judge who has the power to order Peterson to recuse.
Although it isn't clear what your standard is for "not resisting," Peterson could have granted the motion instead of denying it.
have any of the autopsy reports been released yet?
“The Conspiracy Cultists are seeing way too much here.”
So you do not have a problem with million dollar bails for everyone? That is just for openers.
What does that even mean? Way too much of what?
Nope.
“So you do not have a problem with million dollar bails for everyone? That is just for openers.”
Its their own faults. First for being at a Bandito crime summit. Then as the judge was at the scene their attitude.
As every single biker was brought up for interview they all did that tough guy “i didn’t see anything” routine.
After about 25 of those gang members came in with that same dumb ass routine, the judge rightly tired of their BS and said arrest them all, million dollar bond.
Done.
The message is that trash like that isn’t welcome in a civilized town.
That “message” sounds like a clear violation of the 8th Amendment to me.
And/or the 4th. The state is supposed to have probable cause before an arrest.
You are an embarrassment to your tagline, not to mention conservatives who love freedom.
Sending a message is not a proper factor in setting a bond.
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