Posted on 06/26/2017 6:03:13 PM PDT by Elderberry
Persistence paid off for Cody Ledbetter, a biker arrested after the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout who has tried to battle his way into the courtroom for a trial.
Ledbetter, of Waco, who has been passed over on two previous trial settings, was in court again Friday to seek a trial date as soon as possible. He didn’t get the date he wanted, but he got a trial date, nonetheless.
Ledbetter, a former member of the Cossacks group who saw his stepfather, Daniel Boyett, shot and killed at Twin Peaks, has had trial settings in May 2016 and September 2017. Those settings were passed by 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother at the request of the state and to the benefit of other Twin Peaks defendants also clamoring for their days in court.
After some discussion at a brief hearing Friday, Ledbetter and one of his attorneys, Clay Conrad, didn’t get the answer they were looking for, but Strother did give them a trial setting for Jan. 9, 2018.
Jacob Carrizal, a Bandido from Dallas, is the first biker set to go to trial in Strother’s court. He has a Sept. 11 trial date, and prosecutors and court officials said Friday they have every expectation that the first Twin Peaks trial will be held then.
Conrad’s law partner, Paul Looney, has filed multiple motions during the past two years to get Ledbetter to trial. He even filed an appeal with Waco’s 10th Court of Appeals, asking the intermediate appellate court to order Strother to give Ledbetter a quick trial setting. The court rejected his appeal.
“After one year, the speedy trial right kicks in, presumptively,” Conrad said Friday. “We are now at 32 months when we have a trial setting. That is way after what the law allows. The state has agreed that the case against Mr. Ledbetter is not complex. There is no reason for it to be put off over and over and over again.
“The fact is the state has already admitted that it wants to try somebody with a gun first. They want to try someone who is easier to convict and will be more sensational in the newspaper than someone who they know is most likely to be acquitted. We don’t think that is a legitimate reason to continually put off a trial. He could have been tried in May of last year.”
Conrad said Ledbetter is the victim of a speedy trial violation compounded by a due process violation.
“Why is the state so afraid of going to trial on this case?” Conrad said. “He was there keeping his father company. He had his dominant arm in a sling. How someone with their arm in a sling is there for a show of force, I don’t know. If anything, that is a show of weakness. If he is there to show strength, he was absolutely useless to anybody in a fight.”
Prosecutor Michael Jarrett declined comment after the hearing. McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna, who did not attend the hearing, did not return phone messages Friday.
Evidence recall
Conrad also filed a motion Friday to recall some discovery evidence pertaining to Ledbetter that was disseminated to defense attorneys by the district attorney’s office. The motion also sought to disqualify the district attorney’s office from prosecuting his case.
Conrad filed the motion under seal in the district clerk’s office, and Conrad and Jarrett both declined to discuss details of the motion, which Strother denied without a hearing.
Conrad asked for a hearing on the motion, prompting a caution from Strother that a hearing would reveal the very details he is seeking to keep from disclosure by filing it under seal.
Strother also declined to reveal the details of the motion after the hearing.
How about in a family plaza with a breastaurant.
“There are some accounts of Christian bikers winning converts in the wake of this. “
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2413/311a442679412d6848f44f4a9b3dc28a9993.pdf
“Semantic scholar” — sounds tendentious enough that I don’t even want to go there.
Well, we do have some frequencies reserved for our use on Remote Control aircraft, etc.
Are you using 11 meter in between channels ?
There are some really good people in the Christian clubs. We have the Soldiers for Jesus out here. Many of the members are old 1%s who dropped color and changed their lives They wear AN FSSF patch... so did I
50.8 to 51 MHz in the 6 meter band. Amateurs only. No “civilians.”
Depends..............
I just got my tech license ... still figuring out the nuances of 2 meter. Got my Kenwood hand held programmed to the local repeaters. Lots easier to program than my Bao Feng
Take a look, typical Texas tick turd judge:
https://www.txdirectory.com/online/person/?id=21886&office=19368
Every time I here this jerks name, I see Strother Martin, the warden in Cool Hand Luke! Actually, Strother Martin would have made a better judge than this guy!
Like a stringer for the T-T asked me after I'd told him about a background detail (that he must have checked court records for [he said he would] and that he must have found confirmed --because he blandly included the detail in the next articles he wrote up --correcting a D-FW local tv gal without saying he was doing so -- one thing the gal said made me suspicious -- making me wonder where she got the slightly "off" information) asked me regarding Fed LE agency potential involvement;
I said "we won't".
Hope I'm wrong about that. freepmail me if you wonder what the detail the tv news gal got wrong was...
To the false accusation in the middle of what TG posted? You find that lie amusing? Really.
"Sources" tell me that both of you are liars. It should be remembered too that filing false information with courts of law is a felony in most circumstance and jurisdiction. It does not matter that because of the "gangs" you are part of protect filthy scumbag liars like the two of you from being prosecuted in earthy realm, hiding out in churches proclaiming yourself to be honest and law-abiding men, that either of you will escape final judgement in the next.
God will not be mocked. You will be brought into account for every false oath you've ever sworn.
#1, I spoke with God this evening. He is not siding with the drug-dealing, murdering, rapist motorcyclists on this one.
#2, If you are not intelligent enough to understand the “bath” comment was satire, then you definitely belong with the motorcycle goons.
Congrats, welcome aboard. Kenwood is good gear. You will like it.
And you would know who He is "siding" with -- how?
I seriously doubt that God told you anything. That's another thing God hates --- when people in effect say He said something He did not say. Do I need supply reference from Scripture for that? Drug-dealing --mudering "rapists" too you call the "motorcyclists" in question here. Do you know that God is against charging a man for a crimes -- that he did not himself commit -- but that OTHERS had? It is against Law as given unto Moses to punish a son for something his father did, and vice-versa. Being as there is no closer tie of relationship (here this understood under Jewish understandings of their religious laws more in aggregate) one cannot simply accuse all associates with bearing the same guilt as individual associates may. Not without proving actual complicity instead of the accusation based upon loose as a goose innuendo.
If you are not smart enough to see that I went right past that B.S.ing of yours (seeing it for what it was) you have no place insinuating others have some lack of intelligence. Meanwhile, what I said about final judgement was true enough. You will be called into account and answer to Him. What makes you think you would be immune? Going to try pleading the blood of Jesus for your sins, are you? Hey, great, I'd highly recommend doing so -- but -- there's something about this which must be understood --- any of us would be/will be pleading that blood to the one who shed it, Jesus Himself.
Contrary to the nonstop lying TG indulges himself with (and that appears to gleefully blow your own skirts up, too) a person can be opposed to the way the criminal justice system has so far functioned (if we could call it that) regarding this particular case (of multiple cases, more than 150 of them at last count, wasn't it?) ---and even many other cases without necessarily siding with "biker goons". Why is that so difficult to get through to you? Are you as much a dumbass as TG is? Then again, it seems like he really does work at being a dumbass, whereas for yourself you chime in casual and-natural-like.
There are judges (retired ones, anyway) and many more lawyers who have expressed their own dismay over the proceedings in Waco. Are they lacking intelligence and "belong with motorcycle goons" too -- or is it more that relating to this subject matter you're just being an asshole in the mold of TG?
Wow! You were up at 3:36 writing this dribble?
Try the decaf
P.S. How do you know what God tells me, unless He has given you powers previously given only to his Son, Jesus. Are you the second coming?
Oh, and trust me on this, regarding washing away my sins; my sins are MUCH worse then just making fools of a bunch of biker goon sycophants.
Have a nice day.
THIS WAS SENT TO Miss BlueDragon.
Wow! You were up at 3:36 writing this dribble?
Try the decaf
P.S. How do you know what God tells me, unless He has given you powers previously given only to his Son, Jesus. Are you the second coming?
Oh, and trust me on this, regarding washing away my sins; my sins are MUCH worse then just making fools of a bunch of biker goon sycophants.
Have a nice day.
I see you could not refute any of it, and so as usual with hypocrites such as you are, try to kill off the message by dismissing (or even killing off, if that's what it takes?) the messenger. That's an old story, one I'm sure God has seen before. I've read about it.
Remember, it was you who had said that you had "talked to God" about the bikers. Immediately followed by you having said that He was not on the side of persons to whom you had unlawfully applied blanket, one-size-fits all accusations.
Does that mean that you admit --- that God did not say anything to you -- directly?
That it was more yourself simply making things up -- and tacking His name on to it? I'm being too generous here. You confessed nothing, but insulted me -- and what I had to say, instead.
I'm sure your sins are worse than having labeled myself "biker goon sycophant". Had I not in previous comment just pointed to past felonies you'd committed? It's even worse than that, too, isn't it? Before I ever typed out a single word to you --before even you signed up here on FR even, you got called on it before things became hard-set, but chose to stick with the accusations (that you knew were seriously flawed, making them to be misrepresentations of truth, thus LIES) that others later were forced to pay for. Then there are the other sins where you get your ya-ya's.
Millstones. Have a millstone eternity in hell, my not Friend.
“#1, I spoke with God this evening. He is not siding with the drug-dealing, murdering, rapist motorcyclists on this one.”
You left off pedophilia and human trafficking. Child pornography was found on their cell phones.
And we have these goons here denying the evils of these gangs.
“”Sources” tell me that both of you are liars.”
Like what we say about NYT and CNN ‘sources’.
FAKE NEWS.
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