Posted on 08/08/2015 3:02:42 PM PDT by don-o
An attorney for a biker arrested in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout complained that the McLennan County District Attorneys Office keeps postponing an examining trial because it has no case against his client and charged that a prosecutor lied to him.
Conrad Beyer, a San Antonio attorney representing Bill Jason McRee, twice has scheduled examining trials in Wacos 19th State District Court and both hearings have been postponed, including one set for Friday.
While a prosecutor and judge say Beyer agreed to the second postponement, Beyer filed an objection Friday alleging Assistant District Attorney Amanda Dillon misled him about resetting the examining trial on Friday and failed to file a written motion asking for a continuance.
They are trying to move it back and back and back and try to push the case to a grand jury and are trying to keep from having to put together a case they dont have, Beyer said.
After the second continuance, which Judge Ralph Strother said Beyer agreed to Thursday in a telephone conference with Dillon, Strother set McRees examining trial for Aug. 28.
Beyer said Friday he has waited long enough. He removed the request for an examining trial from 19th State District Court and filed it in Waco Municipal Court. No date has been set for that examining trial, which gives defendants a forum to question whether there is sufficient probable cause to support their arrests and a chance to get an early view of the states evidence.
I want it out of an elected officials court, where the court of public opinion does not matter, Beyer said. Everyone here is playing C.Y.A.
Dillon bristled when told Beyer called her a liar. She huddled with McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna and provided a written response to Beyers accusations. Reyna declined comment about the filed objection.
Beyers objection claims that Dillon improperly talked to Strother without him being present to reset the first scheduled examining trial from July 31 to Friday. He said Dillon told him she talked to the judge and that Beyer was supposed to get an email that the hearing had been rescheduled.
Beyer said he was not informed of the continuance and drove from San Antonio to Waco on July 31 expecting to have the examining trial.
Dillon said she told Beyer that she would call the court to move the date.
At no point did he object to the change and in fact agreed, Dillon said in her statement. As I stated to him, I contacted the staff of the court and informed them that there was an agreed reset to the next available setting which was Aug. 7th. At no time did I represent that I contacted or would contact the judge directly, as doing so would be improper. Arguing that the states attorney lied to defense counsel is merely evidence that all future communications with Mr. Beyer will be in writing.
Strother said Dillon did not speak to him but went through his court staff to get the setting changed.
Dillon said Fridays examining trial had to be postponed because of the recent death of a Department of Public Safety troopers mother.
Beyer said the trooper interviewed McRee, a 38-year-old member of the Cossacks biker group who lives in Seagoville, after his arrest but he isnt sure what the trooper was being called to testify about.
Dillon said Beyer agreed to the telephone conference with the judge and never raised any issues that are now contained in his objections filed Friday.
Furthermore, defense counsel agreed to the current setting of August 28th, 2015. The state stands ready to proceed on the defendants examining trial on the
date agreed upon by both parties and the judge, Dillon said.
17 examining trials
No examining trials have been held yet, but a visiting judge who formerly presided in courts in Bosque, Comanche and Hamilton counties has been approved to hear about 17 examining trials in coming weeks.
Beyer said he has watched a three-hour video of the May 17 shootout captured by cameras at Twin Peaks. He declined comment about the video because of a court order that prevents its dissemination, he said. He said he has seen no video shot by police dashboard cameras.
He said some of those arrested have been given their cellphones back and they all were returned scrubbed like factory resets, or with data wiped out.
He said McRee, a motorcycle mechanic, told him he was on the patio sipping iced tea and eating a burger when the shooting began. McRee was only a few feet away from a fellow Cossack when a member of opposing biker group Bandidos shot his friend in the head, Beyer said.
McRee scrambled to help pull people from the parking lot over into the patio area and out of the line of fire, Beyer said. He was crawling to try to help a biker who had been shot in the legs and back when McRee was handcuffed by police, Beyer said.
“McRee was only a few feet away from a fellow Cossack when a member of opposing biker group Bandidos shot his friend in the head, Beyer said.”
White wash.
Cops killed everybody.
Troll gets in the first comment.
No serious person has made such a claim.
Crooked little town.
Violent criminal bikers.
Idiot, middle-aged biker wannabees.
Add it all up who cares? Stay out of Waco. Stay away from bikers. Plus, what kid of idiot grown man goes to a place called “Twin Peaks”? The lot of them deserve prison for sheer stupidity.
More ways than one to skin a cat. Don’t mess with Texas.
Ain’t looking very good for the criminal gangs. Keep peein on the Judges and it might be couple of years hanging out in the Waco Cooler waiting for an examining trial, then start looking at 20 years to Life.
Hey, you criminal bike gang groupies are helping pay the ambulance chaser’s tabs, aren’t ya?
So, personal phones seized have had potential evidence destroyed?
“An attorney for a biker arrested in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout complained that the McLennan County District Attorneys Office keeps postponing an examining trial because it has no case against his client and charged that a prosecutor lied to him....
...Beyer said he has watched a three-hour video of the May 17 shootout captured by cameras at Twin Peaks. He declined comment about the video because of a court order that prevents its dissemination, he said. He said he has seen no video shot by police dashboard cameras...
“...He said some of those arrested have been given their cellphones back and they all were returned scrubbed like factory resets, or with data wiped out....”
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The destruction and/or hiding of hard evidence by the state continues along with their continuous delaying tactics...all to likely cover up, IMHO, an Obama regime provocation operation gone terribly wrong. Like so many things the Obama statists attempt to do, they screwed it up royally. I expect they will try to delay this until after the 2016 elections and hope they can somehow just make it “go away”.
Meanwhile, I await the imminent arrival of the Usual Suspects who defend the statists and DEFLECT, DEFLECT, DEFLECT by trying to redirect all discussion/focus onto bikers.
Lot of em’ ARE going to get it.
“...Meanwhile, I await the imminent arrival of the Usual Suspects who defend the statists and DEFLECT, DEFLECT, DEFLECT by trying to redirect all discussion/focus onto bikers.”
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Well, well, well....the first wave of them already arrived and posted while I was doing my above post. DEFLECTORS, DEFLECTORS, DEFLECTORS (but not nearly as good looking as the tri-Delts from my past).
The police destroyed evidence?
“trying to redirect all discussion/focus onto bikers.”
I don’t think it should be lost that 186 biker gangsters showed up at a biker war and started shooting each other.
How many of the b7kers were undercover cops? Idemnified informants?
I wonder who had what video/images on those phones and if presented, how edited it will be.
(Beyer)”He said some of those arrested have been given their cellphones back”
Beyer may be out of his league ...
“My specializations lie in Landlord/Tenant, Real Estate, Contracts, Construction, Property, and Probate Law. Expertise in these areas is what I offer to our clients.”
Isn’t petty vengeance supposed to be wrong no matter who? Justice blind, sauce for goose sauce for gander?
Why not reproach the prosecution for “peeing on the judges”?
“...biker gangsters showed up at a biker war and started shooting each other.”
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Really? Curious minds (other than the DEFLECTORS) are wondering... where the hell is the evidence? Curious minds want to know ...why the gag orders?
OK, I’m done engaging with despicable & servile defenders of the statists such as yourself.
BS. If 186 "gangsters" had been shooting at each other, there would have been even more dead than the police racked up.
Begging the question to all infinity sure won’t change it. It is only transparent psyops and reflects badly on the statists, not on the motorcyclists.
Why of course, but Gator is not here to illuminate but to incense.
Yep. I have seen his spoor on the threads before.
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