Posted on 10/31/2017 6:39:07 AM PDT by Elderberry
It is starting to seem possible that the trial of Dallas Bandido Christopher Jacob Carrizal may end not with a dramatic bang but a whimper: Which is to say not with a verdict but with a dismissal after the prosecution fails to make its case even before the defense offers a word of rebuttal.
Monday started with a whimper. Dallas attorney Clint Broden wanted to hold a pretrial hearing on behalf of his client Matthew Clendennen. Broden plans to call District Attorney Abelino Reyna to testify at Clendennen’s trial because Reyna is the man who ordered Clendennen’s arrest. So Broden is looking for ways to impeach what Reyna might say.
Broden has already gotten a court of inquiry convened to consider whether Reyna committed perjury under oath in a hearing in August. Broden also thinks he can prove that Reyna was being investigated by the FBI for dismissing cases against his friends and in return for political contributions
Cancelled Hearing
Today Broden wanted to interrogate First Assistant District Attorney Michael Jarrett about obtaining “a second phone in order to keep lines of communication open with” the FBI. Then he wanted to call an unidentified “local attorney” and ask him about Reyna’s alleged dismissals for cash program and “that Reyna was delivered cocaine in the period around his actions in relation to the Twin Peaks case.” Broden also planned to call other members of the DA’s office to testify against their boss.
It would have been the Waco legal highlight of the month but it was cancelled. Broden is under a gag order and he can’t say why. It might be because the District Attorney is running out of lawyers. Reyna, Jarrett, Amanda Dillon and Brody Burks were all in court today ineptly trying to convict Carrizal of murder.
Never Happen Again
The day began, as it usually does, with Gotro complaining about the prosecution withholding evidence. Last week, Judge Matt Johnson ordered Reyna to contact area police forces and find out what evidence they were holding. Apparently, Waco Police Public Information Officer Patrick Swanton was put in charge of accomplishing that. Swanton turned over the newly found evidence to prosecutors on Friday. The evidence included the bomblet that John Wilson, the local Cossacks president, was cooperating with police and had actually identified the Cossacks who had run a Bandido off the road and beaten him to the police. But Swanton didn’t bother to send any of the “newly discovered” material to Gotro until Sunday afternoon.
As is always the case, Reyna promised that would never, ever happen again.
Then the prosecutors got down to the serious business of trying to kill the jurors with boredom. They might actually accomplish that. The jury seems to be infected with flu. It appears to be spreading and at one point Monday afternoon the sickest juror looked like he might pass out.
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Thanks again for keeping us up to date on this. This has gone on so long, it is hard to remember all that has transpired.
Running out of attorneys.
Jury falling asleep.
Forensics proving cops killed some.
This is not turning out how the feds envisioned.
IBTG.
Hillary was supposed to be president.
The court was supposed to be stacked the way they tried to stack the courts in the Bundy Uranium trial.
That was a very interesting read, thanks again.
IBTG
11:07 AM - 31 Oct 2017
Eff the prosecutoers and eff the Bandidos. Too bad both can’t lose.
I look forward to the defense case.
“I look forward to the defense case.”
Gangsters got to protect their turf!
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