Something tells me there is going to be some job openings at the Waco Justice dept. Reyna and his cohorts are the real criminals behind twin peaks. Glad to see they are getting exposed, liklely will get disbarred and might even serve time. Justice will prevail.
Nifong 'em..
Greg Davis .... hmmm ... indicted for falsifying county records ....
It looks like they are used to high turn-overs.
8/1/2014
McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna has lost his third employee in a week through resignation.
Joe Layman, chief of the district attorney’s office’s misdemeanor section and supervisor over the office’s asset forfeiture section, is the latest veteran to leave Reyna’s staff.
Reyna confirmed Layman’s resignation Friday but said he could not comment on personnel matters other than to say that he did not know the reason for Layman’s resignation.
Layman, 61, who worked for former District Attorney John Segrest and Reyna for a total of five years, did not return calls to his cellphone Friday.
Veteran prosecutor Greg Davis, 62, Reyna’s first assistant district attorney who handled most of the office’s death penalty cases, and Julissa Contreras, Reyna’s administrative assistant who worked with Reyna in private practice, both resigned late last week.
Neither of them would comment on their resignations, except Davis said it was something he had been considering for some time.
Layman, whose work with civil forfeiture proceedings pushed the seized assets fund to more than $1 million, has been a licensed attorney for more than 30 years.
His resignation brings to eight the number of employees to resign from the DA’s office this year, including both prosecutors and staff members.
Reyna declined comment on the number of resignations this year.
It sure takes a long time though.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Grits for Breakfast
Man jailed 83 days extra after McLennan DA fails to notify of dropped charges
Rookie McLennan County DA Abel Reyna is a man who, during his brief tenure as District Attorney in Waco, has shown himself unafraid to pick fights. First he wanted to buck the Legislature over complying with the state's updated DNA testing statute, delaying testing of potentially exonerating (or incriminating) evidence in the 30-year old Lake Waco murders case. Then he announced what amounts to his own, personal mandatory minimum on DWI deals, including big increases from prior practice in fine and fee amounts. But the longer the young DA remains in office, he'll discover that there isn't as much time to go out picking fights in a job where more than your fair of them come your way of their own accord. Most recently, reported the Waco Tribune Herald ("Waco man wrongly jailed for 83 days may sue county," Feb. 1, behind paywall).
A Waco man is deciding if he will sue the county because he was wrongfully detained for 83 days after the district attorney’s office declined his case for prosecution but failed to notify the McLennan County Jail.
Damion Wayne Evans, 33, stayed in the county jail with no other charges pending against him for almost three months after the district attorney’s office declined to prosecute him on a tampering with physical evidence charge.
District Attorney Abel Reyna said Evans’ improperly extended incarceration was the fault of his office. His staff did not fax a case disposition report to the sheriff’s office so it would know to release Evans.
Damion Evans was jailed for 83 days after the McLennan County district attorney’s office decided they would not prosecute his case.
“I will accept responsibility for the error in my office, and my apologies go to Mr. Evans,” Reyna said. “Though it doesn’t change what happened to him, the only thing I can do is work hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
According to court records, Evans was arrested Oct. 12, 2011, after Waco police pulled him over and saw him chewing on something. The officers assumed he was eating drugs or items containing drugs, according to records filed in the case. But they did not take him to a hospital to empty the contents of his stomach.
A case disposition report dated Jan. 17 said prosecutors did not accept the case because without the object the suspect allegedly swallowed, they were “unable to prove what it was or that it was illegal.”