Judge appoints special prosecutors in pending Twin Peaks trial

kwtx.com ^ | 10/31/2017 | Paul J. Gately

[Elderberry]

A retired senior judge from Houston who is acting as judge in a pending Twin Peaks trial Tuesday appointed three Houston area private attorneys to act as special prosecutors in the case.

Retired senior Judge Douglas Shaver named attorneys Brian M. Roberts, Brian Benken and Feroz Merchant to serve as prosecutors for the state’s case against Matthew Clendennen, a Hewitt man charged and indicted in the Twin Peaks shooting case.

Clendennen is among 154 defendants indicted in connection with the May 17, 2015 gunfight that broke out between rival biker gangs and police outside the Twin Peaks restaurant, which left nine dead and more than two dozen injured.

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t like the concept of “retired judges”. Weren’t some of them voted OUT of office (defeated)?

[Elderberry]

"I don’t like the concept of “retired judges”. Weren’t some of them voted OUT of office (defeated)?"

28 U.S. Code § 371 - Retirement on salary; retirement in senior status

(a) Any justice or judge of the United States appointed to hold office during good behavior may retire from the office after attaining the age and meeting the service requirements, whether continuous or otherwise, of subsection (c) and shall, during the remainder of his lifetime, receive an annuity equal to the salary he was receiving at the time he retired.

It sounds like "Judge" is a pretty "cushy job"

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for the update. I appreciate your interest in this.

[bgill]

The state is going to run out of judges and prosecutors before they get to defendant #154.

[piroque]

marked

[easternsky]

Thanks again, you have kept us with the News flowing for quite sometime and it has been very enlightening for those here from day one. Do miss Don O though he took a lot of flak.