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Waco Biker Prosecutions Continue to Fall Apart as Last Set of Original Indictments Dismissed
Reason ^ | 2/26/2019 | Brian Doherty

Posted on 02/26/2019 3:52:39 PM PST by Elderberry

Nearly four years ago, over 170 people were arrested after a violent altercation outside a meeting of motorcycle club members at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, was swarmed by police, who had already surrounded the meeting before anything untoward occurred. Nine people were killed and 18 wounded in the melee. This week, the last of the initial set of charges was dropped after a special prosecutorial team didn't like what it saw.

From the start, lawyers and others pointed out that it was very unlikely indeed that all the arrested had committed any crimes at all, and that the initial $1 million bond for all of them charged with a blanket crime of "engaging in organized criminal activity" seemed unreasonably punitive. The police strove in the aftermath to keep a detailed account of what actually happened from reaching the public eye, or that of defense attorneys.

As the years under which those people had criminal charges hanging over their heads went by—with all the problems that come with that on top of the missed work and rent and family responsibilities that bedeviled them from their initial time in custody under that absurd bond—dozens of the arrested went unindicted as grand juries expired, and last year charges began to be dropped against many of the defendants, with not a single successful prosecution having happened yet nearly four years after the mass arrests.

Many of the bikers who had charges eventually dropped have filed civil rights suits against local police and district attorneys over the absurd arrests and incredibly long times to get any of them to trial.

This week the whole case continued its painfully slow unraveling, as three more bikers, the last still facing that first set of indictments, saw their cases dismissed.

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: biker; reyna; waco
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To: Lurker
Don’t you agree?

Absolutely. Though I never acquired a taste for it, I've eaten crow before.

21 posted on 02/26/2019 5:04:01 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: an amused spectator

I do remember. Some folks don’t learn.


22 posted on 02/26/2019 5:05:36 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Lurker

What about he last DA Reyna office emailing defendant Cody Ledbetter’s pics of his naked wife to everyone

What sort of district attorney does this?


23 posted on 02/26/2019 5:15:45 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: MileHi

Nearly all were 5.56 and I think a few .40s

Except for I think. Biker on camera popping off his 9mm

All shots fired were from the govt forces

Someone correct me


24 posted on 02/26/2019 5:17:53 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: MileHi

Ms Gator has pals here.....she ain’t the only one


25 posted on 02/26/2019 5:19:12 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: Elderberry

These cops need to be prosecuted.


26 posted on 02/26/2019 5:23:35 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: wardaddy; Elderberry

Of the dead we know one unaffiliated guy was shot by Cossacks. At least four were shot by police. The rest we don’t know, or at least I don’t. But I suspect most of the other dead were shot by police. No one has even speculated on the wounded that I have seen.

Elderberry, that sound about right?


27 posted on 02/26/2019 5:28:55 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Bon mots
These cops need to be prosecuted.

Not only the cops but a few lawyers along with them

28 posted on 02/26/2019 5:29:38 PM PST by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: wardaddy

No, but of the others, one was banned and the others slinked off to annoy people on other threads.


29 posted on 02/26/2019 5:31:33 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: wardaddy; TexasGator

The kind Texas Gator approves of, apparently.

L


30 posted on 02/26/2019 5:32:44 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: MileHi
Of the dead we know one unaffiliated guy was shot by Cossacks. At least four were shot by police. The rest we don’t know, or at least I don’t. But I suspect most of the other dead were shot by police. No one has even speculated on the wounded that I have seen.

Elderberry, that sound about right?

Off the top of my head that seems about right. I'll look and see if I can find anything.

31 posted on 02/26/2019 5:39:27 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry

A while back, retired lawyer that I am, I predicted this total clusterf**k would produce ZERO convictions, especially murder convictions. My prediction’s coming true.


32 posted on 02/26/2019 5:54:33 PM PST by libstripper
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To: MileHi
A Cossack named Jacob Lee “Rattlecan” Rhyne, executed Jesus Delgado “Jesse” “Mohawk” Rodriguez, who was unaffiliated with any club, by shooting him the head at close range as Rodriguez fought with Cossack Jacob Cody “J” Reese.

The lone Bandido to die, Manuel Isaac “Candy Man” Rodriguez died from two gunshots, He was struck in the head by a significantly deformed .38 caliber bullet that was recovered from his neck and he was also shot in the back where a less deformed .38 caliber bullet was recovered. It is possible that Rodriguez was shot by one of the four undercover cops in the crowd but unlikely.

Richard Matthew “Chain” Jordan, III, the stepson of Cossacks Nomad Owen Reeves another club regional sergeant at arms, died of gunshot wounds to the head. Two bullet fragments, identified by the forensics lab as having been fired from a .38 caliber weapon, were recovered during his autopsy.

Matthew Mark Smith was killed by one of two Bandidos using a .45 caliber pistol. Smith had a pistol in his hand when he was shot. There is significant evidence that the Bandido who killed Smith, warned him to stop and fired only after Smith fired at him.

Ballistics evidence indicates that at least four of the wounded were shot by police riflemen. One of them was Christopher Julian Carrizal, the father of Christopher Jacob Carrizal, who will be the first Twin Peaks defendant to stand trial. Among the victims Jake Carrizal is accused of assaulting, is his father.

The Waco Ballistics

33 posted on 02/26/2019 5:54:55 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry

The process is punishment. It’s called lawfare, and it’s used by the powerful to crush the politically weak. It matters not one bit if one is innocent. The powerful will use the legal system to bankrupt you and make your life a miserable hell for as long as possible. Absolutely disgusting, but it is what it is in America today.


34 posted on 02/26/2019 5:58:39 PM PST by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.hu)
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To: Elderberry

Waco a training ground for the police state who rules us?


35 posted on 02/26/2019 6:10:29 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: wardaddy; TexasGator
TG is known liar here on FR.....

Been knowing that for years...I can prove it and he/she knows it.

36 posted on 02/26/2019 6:11:52 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: libstripper

Yeah looked like a clufrster...I spelled that right...BTW.


37 posted on 02/26/2019 6:17:29 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: SuperLuminal
Waco a training ground for the police state who rules us?

I thought that was Jade Helm 15.

38 posted on 02/26/2019 6:32:38 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry
Good point...

As my favorite (and former) military commander said (about the enemy):
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time”
– Lewis B. Chesty Puller, USMC

39 posted on 02/26/2019 6:56:44 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Elderberry

Very good. Thanks for dredging that up.


40 posted on 02/26/2019 7:20:08 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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