Posted on 02/25/2019 6:15:40 PM PST by Elderberry
One of four Houston attorneys assigned to handle four Twin Peaks biker cases as special prosecutors dismissed the remaining three cases Monday and called the way the McLennan County District Attorney's Office handled the 2015 deadly shootout a "harebrained scheme" that was "patently offensive" to him.
Special prosecutors Brian Roberts, Brian Benken, Feroz Merchant and Mandy Miller filed motions Monday to dismiss the first-degree felony engaging in organized criminal activity charges against bikers William Chance Aikin, Billy McCree and Ray Nelson. The motions to dismiss said, "Upon reviewing all the facts, circumstances and evidence, it is the state's position that no probable cause exists to believe the defendant committed the offense."
The team of special prosecutors dismissed the case against Hewitt resident Matthew Clendennen in April 2018.
"I think, unfortunately, and this is probably a poor choice of words but it was simply a shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality," Roberts said. "I can't imagine what (former McLennan County DA) Abel Reyna was thinking other than this was a big case and it was somehow going to be beneficial for him or his office."
Roberts, a former prosecutor who served in the special crimes bureau of the Harris County District Attorney's Office, said he had no problem with the first part of the process, which was to round up more than 200 bikers, identify and photograph them. He said the process was necessary to try to see who was involved and who were merely witnesses.
"I do have a very serious problem as a lawyer with the wholesale charging of people without an investigation," he said. "They had plenty of time to conduct an investigation. They had plenty of time to do what they needed to do to find out who the parties needed to be in this harebrained scheme.
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Thanks for the update.
I think Reyna’s budget for a social media consultant ran out.
Or he choked to death from licking all that Jack Boot polish
Ok Now what the hell happened again ?
was there some giant shoot out in some parking lot?
Ping
Finally the pendulum is swinging back toward justice. The damage this caused to so many people is real though. Time to make those people financially whole again.
Has Reyna been charged with fraud and obstruction of justice yet?
If she is that irresponsible, tell her that people up in Grayson county believe that she fully deserves to be taxed everything she now has, and everything she could possibly earn over the next fifteen years to make things right for the people wronged by the administration which she and the other voters in Waco put in power.
That would be a wake up call I'd like to see.
6 more years.
In before TG. Aparrently it aint hard anymore.
I am not a bike, not in a group at least, but do think a great injustice has occurred in Waco. It is taking a long time, but appears Justice is prevailing. Next will be to jail those people that caused this to occur in the first place, including murder charges.
That just goes to show how much all of this is Under the Radar.
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