Very slick strategy - Neuter the First Amendment by starvation.
“Very slick strategy - Neuter the First Amendment by starvation. “
That’s one possible view and it may be correct. Another view is the judge is attempting to prevent the case from being tried on TV where rules of evidence don’t apply and reputations and careers of presumably innocent and worthy public servants are ruined. (Admittedly, it’s hard to view many of the current public servants as anything but selfish, partisan hacks out for their own aggrandizement. But we should at least give them a chance under rule of law and evidence to state their case.)
naaa.....
Clint just needs to turn his findings over to a non-attorney third party.
Verbally direct 3rd party which rocks to turn over.
Everyone walked into this with their eyes wide open. Twin Peaks was asked not to have this, the patrons who knew it was trouble, and the cops knew they would have to clean up the mess.
BTW, does anyone know how many of the 170 are still in jail?
IIRC, the bond amount was significantly reduced for who were jailed.
I have to say, the further down this rabbit hole we get, the curiouser and curiouser it gets.
Gee the courthouse gang covering up for each other. Who would have ever thought that government lawyers would act like that?
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You know that they have lost their case when they rely on gag orders.
Reality will surface!
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Perhaps some are glad the bunch was locked up long enough to let the dust settle.
““We support them. That’s what this community is; it’s Texas. It’s a Bandido state,” she said. And Blackett says in light of what happened Sunday, she knows it could be risky. “You know, the environment may change now and, I’m not gonna lie, we’ll just have to be on alert.”
She said that means never riding alone and traveling in groups, until the dust settles.”
http://kxan.com/2015/05/18/local-motorcycle-club-members-barely-missed-waco-shooting/
If the prosecution desires to now have no one say anything about it (other than themselves), then they should offer up retractions for what has been already been said to the public by law enforcement officials which is prejudicial against defendants.
Law enforcement has already poisoned that well in statements made to news reporters which included alleged details of what persons belonging to particular MC's did at that time, and that place.
They want to have the power to accuse, while tightly controlling all information? It's a little bit late. They've already let out a summation of what one portion of video evidence may show to include such gems as Cossacks allegedly "checking their weapons" on the outdoor patio, as if they were laying in wait, hoping to be in a gunfight.
That would prejudice portions of the public (and potential jury pool) against all Cossack and Scimitar defendants rather indiscriminately, when it's otherwise obvious enough to those who have looked into the matter beyond the multitude of statements released by Waco PD that the majority of those arrested most likely did not go there for primary intent & reason of engaging in a shooting war with rival MC's.
If one piece of anecdotal info can be believed, it's like Cossacks were invited to what would include a sort of sidebar to the general meeting, which would be a parlay of sorts over an issue generally between Bandidos and Cossacks which likely had played it's part in the recent violence (between Bandidos and Cossacks, and even murder of one Cossack, in Ft. Worth).
The CoC meetings could also be informally open to most any "biker" to attend, if another item of anecdotal info possibly be believed.
The more information comes to bear upon what happened, the less the LE narrative and indiscriminate attribution of motives which LE liberally applied to each and every defendant looks to be accurate. It's like the PD made a generally poor assessment from the get-go, but act like they still seek to have the accusations they've made (as seen in the initial charges filed against Clendennen) stick in the public eye as indisputable truth.
Secret trials -- we already almost have those. Most trials no one pays much attention to. And then from outside of courtrooms, court proceedings generally open to the public can sometimes at least, have County sheriff officers block entry through use of intimidation. I've had that happen to me when I was simply hoping to drop in to a lower court, and watch how things went in regard to arraignment proceedings of multiple persons and types of things. Traffic tickets, drunk driving, then inmates brought from the County jail to appear before a judge, etc, that type of thing. I wanted to watch judges in action, who also would appear on election ballots.
Why a deputy blocked my access he wouldn't say, other than if I was not one of the persons on the long list of those who were required to appear for a variety of reasons, then I could not enter the courtroom. And this was not anything approaching a "closed" trial at all, but was merely preliminary sort of proceedings for many different people, most all of them not associated to one another in the least.
Judges and LE both are scared nowadays, I guess. It goes beyond judges being merely irritated by persons entering the courtroom while things are occurring, into fear someone will walk in a blow them away.
I would suggest the LEO and judges both stop being so often (far too often) such unmitigated asses -- and then maybe, just maybe, people would be more supportive of them, rather than in today's society citizens growing increasingly disgusted with them, and their lying-azz ways.