Posted on 07/03/2015 7:00:27 AM PDT by don-o
Waco is leaking lies again.
Detective Manuel Chavez has admitted to a defense attorney that he perjured himself when he presented a fill in the name criminal complaint to Justice of the Peace Walter H. “Pete” Peterson on May 18.
Chavez presented the complaint which began, “Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared the affiant herein, a peace officer under the laws of Texas, who being duly sworn, on path made the following statements and accusations:
“My name is Manuel Chavez and I am commissioned as a peace officer with the City of Waco by The Stale of Texas. I hereby state upon my oath that I have reason to believe and do believe that heretofore, and before the making and filing of this Complaint, that on or about May 17, 2015, in McLennan County, Texas, the said” (insert name here) “dld then and there, as a member of a criminal street gang, commit or conspire to commit murder, capital murder, or aggravated assault, against the laws of the State.”
No Evidence
Peterson, who is a lay justice of the peace and not a lawyer, then ordered 177 people held on bonds of $1 million each. He explained the very high bail amounts by saying, “I think it is important to send a message. We had nine people killed in our community. These people just came in, and most of them were from out of town.”
Chavez has admitted and public officials in Waco are aware, that Chavez had no evidence at all about virtually all of the defendants against whom he claimed to have probable cause.
Chavez has also stated that he did not write the affidavit to which he swore. He has stated that it was written by “someone” in the District Attorney’s Office. The McLennan County District Attorney is Abelino “Abel” Reyna. The County’s Assistant District Attorneys are Michael Jarrett and Brandon Luce.
Culpability
Chavez has also admitted that Peterson told him to swear to all 177 complaints and did not individually review each complaint – presumably to save time.
In Texas perjury may be either a Class A misdemeanor or a third degree felony. Felony perjury is punishable by a term of two to ten years in prison.
The Aging Rebel believes that Reyna, Jarrett and Luce are all aware of the misconduct. Under the rules of professional responsibility that govern American attorneys, lawyers are ethically bound to report the misconduct of other attorneys and judges.
Sounds like these are the criminals belonging in jail.
Who will guard the guardians?
This presages the sort of round-ups that this regime will conduct on a mass scale. Unless we stop them.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Hey, what's the problem? The federal government operates in the same manner. Gotta pass it before you can read it.
The local Waco DA and police leadership are junior wannabes emulating the ongoing criminal enterprise known as the Obama administration and its BATF and other DOJ Agency operatives.
Cue the troll defenders of the statists to come in and start denigrating all the folks mass arrested.
As an assistant county attorney once told me
“We don’t have to obey the law, we are the law.”
actually from the Guardian (provided in part at the link given) has been posted.
It may deserve it's own thread.
We actually have a couple of discussions this morning mostly free of their ridiculous and noxious Nazi-like presence.
It surely does. Will you make it so?
Apparently the trolls have the holiday off!
Kind of humorous, really. The way to identify gummint trolls is check their holiday habits!
It takes an egregious step for any remedy to attach to those who enforce and apply the law, and the remedy is usually pointless, nothing more than empty promises and lofty rhetoric.
Heh ... everybody with a life has left the basement, even those who aren’t government.
I dunno - what I am hearing is that it’s too dangerous for anyone to leave the basement.
Very, very interesting. The biker lawyers must be chomping at the bit over this information. However I think they already knew this and thus the basis for their lawsuits.
No reason for everyone to plow the same ground.
I’m not an attorney but if I was the bikers defense attorney I’d try and find out which govt agencies met with the District Attorneys in Waco before the incident took place.
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