"The prosecution quit today in the trial of Dallas Bandido Jake Carrizal.
Now that the four prosecutors have said everything they could think to say, shown the jury about 1060 exhibits and solicited testimony from about 50 witnesses, the whole of the case against Carrizal turns out to have be cruel and weak – just like the last day of it.
This has been a Soviet-style show trial. Four hundred and fifty prospective jurors had their lives disrupted so McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna could either: A) Enhance his political reputation for defending Waco against imagined enemies; or B) ingratiate himself to the federal authorities who imagined and instigated the Twin Peaks Ambush in hopes they would not indict him for political corruption. Two of his assistant prosecutors, Amanda Dillon and Michael Jarret spent much of the last 30 months preparing for this trial and that cost local taxpayers something north of $500,000. The list of the damage grows from there. Millions for forensic testing, housing inmates, for investigators and lawyers, for overhead and courthouse security.
Doing Jake Carrizal
You might have thought the prosecutors would have wanted to go after somebody who was arguably guilty of something. Cossack Owen Reeves for example: A man with a villainous countenance who disappeared after the brawl, arrived at the hospital three hours later in a private vehicle with a knot on his head, who had misplaced his cell phone en route and who then announced to doctors that he had amnesia. Or the Cossack videotaped murdering one of the victims on the Department of Public Safety polecam in the parking lot. Or the Cossack videotaped firing a gun inside the restaurant.
No. For reasons that are still buried it had to be a Bandido. And then, for reasons that will probably never be explained, it had to be Christopher Jacob Carrizal."
Still IBTG.
It's pretty clear to the unbiased observer that the reason it was Bandido Jake Carrizal is because he was the first one to take out his gun and start shooting people.
Everything else flows from there.