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A Waco biker indicted in the Twin Peaks shootout wants to go to trial first and as quickly as possible as a "test case" to prove that prosecutors are working under a "flawed" legal theory, the man;s attorney said Monday. Houston attorney Paul C. Looney, who represents Cody Ledbetter, filed a motion Monday requesting "the earliest possible trial setting" for Ledbetter, a 26-year-old auto mechanic and a member of the Cossacks biker group. Ledbetter was among 106 bikers indicted Nov. 10 on first-degree felony engaging in organized criminal activity charges. > MORE: Grand jury indicts 106 bikers in connection with...

<p>There is a lot of speculation relating to the 9 sealed indictments among the 106 indictments handed down by the Waco Grand Jury last week. The MPP received the following message from one of the 9 individuals that may provide some clarity.</p>

A Texas lawyer posted the "cookie cutter" comment on Facebook and added, "The only evidence possibly presented would be that they were wearing club colors." The indicted motorcycle enthusiasts were part of the 177 bikers arrested after the Twin Peaks restaurant shootings in May. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the McLennan County grand jury took just nine hours on Tuesday to indict all 106 Twin Peaks bikers in cases presented to them during their session. The grand jury indicted all 106 for the crime of engaging in organized criminal activity under a Texas criminal statute relating to a "criminal street...

A McLennan County grand jury has indicted 106 bikers who were arrested May 17 after a shootout outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco that killed nine people and wounded 20. Curiously, nine of the 106 people indicted last week were not among the 177 people arrested six months ago, according to The Associated Press. AP reported that none of nine has been arrested. McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna has said the grand jury will return to consider charges against the other 80 bikers arrested six months ago, possibly as soon as Wednesday. The indictments allege that the 106...

The time and location of a biker rally aimed at throttling Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton’s campaign for McLennan County sheriff have been changed. The “Sink Swanton” gathering will now be at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the American Legion Post 121 at 722 Leroy Parkway in Elm Mott. The rally previously had been set for Sunday morning at the McLennan County Courthouse parking lot on Washington Avenue but the threat of inclement weather forced the event to move, organizers said. The rally is being organized by Mel Moss, 67, a Vietnam-era veteran from Tarrant County and co-founder and president...

Even as the nation wrestles with fatal police shootings, one thing has been a constant: authorities share their version of events in a timely manner. It has been six months since the infamous biker melee at Twin Peaks in which nine people were killed, at least 18 wounded, and 177 arrested on charges of engaging in organized crime but the mystery remains: How many of the dead or wounded were shot by officers? Defense lawyers say the answer is not among of the reams of documents, photos, surveillance videos and autopsies they have been allowed to review in the case....

Austin - The confrontation was brief and bombastic; it took place while attorneys waited for a visiting judge to arrive for a hearing on whether Justice of the Peace Pete Peterson should recuse himself. Michael Jarrett, chief prosecutor and lead assistant in the Twin Peaks prosecutions of 177 persons charged with the offense of engaging in organized criminal activity for their presence at a political meeting focusing on pending handgun legislation that turned deadly when Waco Police gunned down 9 persons and wounded an additional 20, called out Dallas lawyer F. Clinton Broden. You've violated every protective order out there....

AUSTIN - A biker shootout in Waco, Tex., that left nine people dead and nearly 20 wounded in May has resulted in 106 felony indictments, and Central Texas prosecutors say more indictments are likely in the protracted investigation. A total of 177 people were arrested in the shootout on May 17 at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, and the McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna served noticed that his office was poised to seek indictments against as many 71 others who were not named in the first round of indictments returned by a grand jury Tuesday. "This is just...

The Waco Grand Jury indictments on 106 individuals for engaging in organized crime are not convictions. The Grand Jury only determines whether the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to indict. The Grand Jury only hears from the prosecutor, no defense attorneys are allowed, and does not make a determination on guilt. As examining trials made clear, the basis of the prosecutor’s argument in many of these case relies solely on an individual’s association with a motorcycle club that that had members accused of committing a crime on May 17th. These indictments based solely on association, particularly the cases where the prosecutor...

The day after dozens of bikers were indicted after a deadly brawl in Waco, many of them are likely to be considering making a deal, experts said, potentially giving up their biker brothers when faced with a long prison sentence. Prosecutors in McLellan County indicted 106 bikers on Tuesday on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity, some six months after a melee at a Twin Peaks that left nine dead and at least 18 wounded. If convicted, they face the prospect of 15 years to life. Many of the bikers indicted likely didn't throw a punch or fire a...

A grand jury has now returned indictments alleging that 106 bikers arrested after a deadly shootout outside a Waco, Texas, restaurant were engaged in organized criminal activity. Nine people died and 20 were injured during the May 17 shootout between police and bikers outside a Twin Peaks restaurant, a conflict authorities say arose from an apparent confrontation between the Bandidos and the Cossacks motorcycle clubs. Authorities rounded up 177 people at the time. Of the 106 indictments, nine were sealed because the defendants were not among the 177 and have not been arrested yet.

A Texas grand jury returned indictments Tuesday against 106 of the 177 people who were arrested after a shootout between cops and members of two motorcycle clubs left nine people dead at a Waco restaurant in May. The McLennan County grand jury returned true bills accusing the 106 suspects of engaging in organized criminal activity, with the underlying offenses being murder and aggravated assault, District Attorney Abel Reyna said Tuesday night in Waco. Charges against the 71 other suspects weren't presented Tuesday but will be "at a later time," Reyna said.

Update, 11:12 a.m.: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Frazier entered the locked district attorney’s office and walked toward the grand jury chambers. He left a few minutes later and said on his way out that his presence had nothing to do with the grand jury. Original story: A McLennan County grand jury is considering evidence this morning from the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout that left nine bikers dead and 20 wounded. For the first time ever, the grand jury is meeting in a newly renovated room in the district attorney’s office on the fourth floor of the courthouse annex. The...

It was a gun battle that shocked the nation and left nine people dead, twenty wounded and 177 under arrest. Now six months since the biker massacre at the Twin Peaks 'breastaurant' in Waco, Daily Mail Online can reveal the immediate cause of the violence - and how police are accused of having allowed it to happen. Remarkably, nobody has been charged with murder despite the scale of death and injury, and the fact that 177 people were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the massacre. The background to the shootings can also now be laid bare - and with...

McLennan County grand jury headed by an Iraq War combat veteran will begin hearing evidence next week in cases related to the May 17 Twin Peaks melee in which nine bikers were killed and 177 were jailed, according to courthouse sources. The 12-person panel, summoned in a specially-called meeting, will assemble Tuesday morning, and prosecutors will begin presenting evidence from the Twin Peaks incident, the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said. Grand juries in McLennan County routinely meet twice a month on Wednesdays. However, because Wednesday is Veterans Day, the grand jury was asked to meet Tuesday. If...

American voters are not very excited about Hillary Clinton, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Democrats still view her favorably, and she’s still leading a pathetic field by a wide margin, but on questions of character and personality, the American public gives her some pretty horrendous reviews. Likability (33% positive)Honesty (27% positive)

According to a usually informed source, both CNN and The Associated Press are in possession of previously unreleased evidence related to the Twin Peaks Massacre last May. The evidence has been presented to a grand jury currently convened in McLennan County and includes materials that have not yet been discovered to defense attorneys in the case. The evidence includes an affidavit by a Waco police detective who testified that a Texas Department of Public Safety “covert camera” recorded a member of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club “executing” a member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. At a bond reduction hearing on June...

Last week’s hyperbolized release of surveillance video taken on the patio of the Waco Twin Peaks on May 17 hardly qualifies as evidence of anything. CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera reports that “a fight and shootout erupts just off camera…. The reaction tells the story of the chaos and horrific scene that unfolds as the gunshots start exploding.” There might be more to the story than CNN can see. Just before an edit, a couple of Cossacks climb over the railing toward the confrontation. After the edit, Cossacks scramble over the railing back to the now deserted patio. One Cossack draws...

If the mysteriously leaked Twin Peaks restaurant video of bikers reacting to an eruption of parking-lot violence resonates dramatically, it’s because we’re mindful of basic facts in the May 17 shootout: nine dead, 177 jailed, many arrested because of state law that, yes, allows certain arrests based on criminal gang tattoos and insignia. And if footage of bikers scrambling behind tables and chairs, some drawing weapons, one firing a gun, resonates, it’s because of vivid coverage such as Trib reporting drawn from affidavits issued when some bikers’ vehicles were subsequently seized. The evidence suggests a deadly ambush involving rival motorcycle...

The last person jailed in connection with a deadly shootout among bikers and police outside a Waco restaurant was poised to be released from jail Saturday, more than five months after authorities rounded up 177 people from the crime scene and initially held them on $1 million bonds on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity.