[dp0622]

how did this INCREDIBLE, ILLEGAL and OUTRAGEOUS thing just disappear from the news?

If it was bloods and crips, we’d be hearing about it for years.

Maybe this was a test run before the really big roundups

[UCANSEE2]

My question has always been, why would a large gathering of bikers start a gunfight when they could clearly see groups of LEO’s standing outside with guns at the draw ?

[PAR35]

In before TG and the Waco PD PR team.

[mountainlion]

You do not hear much about injustice unless you are black or Muslim due to muslim privileged.

[mountainlion]

You do not hear much about injustice unless you are black or Muslim due to muslim privileged.

[Seruzawa]

Yeah. Right. The cops have no problem with talking to the Press whenever they figure that they can cook the trial or taint the jury pool.

[Chode]

so much for the right to a speedy trial...

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Am I the only one here that would like the headline written in plain English without double negatives:

“Texas’ top criminal court blocks Waco biker case gag order”

It should be either “court lifts gag order” or “Gag order remains”.

I’m guessing the court lifted the gag order.

[Cboldt]

Technically, it didn't reverse anything. The sequence was ...

• gag order imposed by lower court
• gag order found illegal by appeals court
• DA Reyna appeals appeal court decision to highest court, requesting "mandamus" from the highest court, that it order the appeals court to withdraw its decision and order.
• Highest Court stays the order of the appeals court. The appeals court decision is still pending, just held in abeyance until the highest court rules.
• Highest Court sits on the case for ten months (case filed 8/11/15)
• Highest Court issues an opinion with one sentence - "We deny mandamus relief and withdraw our order staying the proceedings." No reason given. None.

The whole point of this shucking and jiving by the DA and the courts is to delay action in all public venues. No "speedy trial" (an indefinite time period, can be as long as ten years), no public statements by witnesses.

Well, not the whole point. The other point is to use the legal system to impose punishment by process, without any finding of guilt. It is emotionally damaging and financially expensive to be formally accused. The DA will ruin as many of these people as he can, and the courts will help. There is no recourse, there are "clever ways" to bypass the protections that people think the law provides, in a case of false prosecution. The DA has near absolute immunity, and the judges do have absolute immunity.