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The Waco Biker Shootout Left Nine Dead. Why Was No One Convicted? How 177 arrests led to no convictions — a tangled, seven-year tale of prosecutorial hubris and tenacious defense.
New York Times ^ | Feb. 23, 2022 | Mark Binelli

Posted on 04/23/2022 6:54:24 PM PDT by Elderberry

If you ask Paul Looney, a Houston defense attorney, about the Twin Peaks biker case, he’ll tell you there’s one person who knows more about it than anyone else alive: his trial-preparation specialist, Roxanne Avery. An entire wall of her home office in Norman, Okla., is covered with wallet-size mug shots of the nearly 200 bikers arrested, as well as photographs of the nine men who died that day, seven years ago, after a violent brawl in a Waco parking lot. Each picture is layered with Post-it Notes and details about the subjects: ages, road names (Cheech, Chain, Drama, Sidetrack, Saint, Mad Dog, Pee Paw, Bubba, Bubba Earl, Bashful, Yogi, Reno, Creeper, Grumpy Dan), club affiliations, ranks, descriptions of injuries (“Bullet entered neck, partially exited”; “Paralyzed from the waist down”; “DEAD”) and any other pertinent information (“I met him March 2018”; “9mm Glock”; “U.S. Army — 2 tours Iraq”; “Convicted felon”; “Shot dog?”; “Did not see anything”; “Graduate Baylor University w/ English degree”). Point to a random photograph, and Avery will generally be able to squint and tell you something about the biker in question.

“There’s a rumor that he killed somebody,” she said one morning two years ago, tapping a face. “I don’t think it’s true. I know these guys.” She wore a large black onyx ring and brilliant cherry red lipstick; one of her Chihuahuas, Bonnie, padded by in a white dress with a red bow. Moving to a large computer monitor, Avery began to click through crime-scene photographs, many of them graphic close-ups of dead bodies. “So he’s got a gunshot wound that you see is in his face and his eye,” she noted, pausing at a particularly grisly image. “The other one entered through his back and exited out.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: banglist; biker; ib4tg; ibtg; reyna; twinpeaks; waco
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I was searching for anything on the Abel Reyna lawsuit and came across this article. It's a good read.
1 posted on 04/23/2022 6:54:24 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry

Full Article


2 posted on 04/23/2022 7:02:51 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Elderberry

Thanks.


3 posted on 04/23/2022 7:04:04 PM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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To: Elderberry

An utter LE fiasco.


4 posted on 04/23/2022 7:08:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Elderberry

Someone gets killed...
Arrest everyone in sight and charge them all with murder...
Unable to prove anything...
Ruin a bunch of people’s lives...


5 posted on 04/23/2022 7:20:56 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Elderberry

Did the Cops cause the biker gangs to shoot at each other?


6 posted on 04/23/2022 7:22:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Elderberry

Did any case actually go to trial where full discovery would have to be admitted into evidence?

If not then that tells you LE and the prosecutor didn’t want that to be revealed. I support the police but I remember this case and it smell rotten from the beginning. I remember the prosecutor was fully corrupt. Abel Reyna?


7 posted on 04/23/2022 7:25:08 PM PDT by Boomer (Piss On A Commie For Mommy!)
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To: Elderberry

In before all the stupid sh!t starts.


8 posted on 04/23/2022 7:29:45 PM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: Elderberry

IBTG


9 posted on 04/23/2022 7:34:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Boomer

Forget it, Jake. It’s Waco.


10 posted on 04/23/2022 7:35:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Humans live on 1/4th of what they eat; on the last 3/4ths lives their doctor. --Egyptian Inscription)
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To: Elderberry

I still wanna know why if you want to have a motorcycle club that wears your own patch and rocker, why you have to have permission and an agreement with the biggest 1% gang in the area.
If you don’t everyone says there will be “trouble”.


11 posted on 04/23/2022 7:38:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Rebelbase

It was a biker fiasco. They lit off a gang shootout and the Texas cops put an immediate hard end to it... pronto.
Nice church people don’t need outlaw wars on the mall parking lot when they wanna get lunch after church on a Sunday morning.
People complained about the Bonnie and Clyde ambush too.

My only complaint is that Antifa and BLM don’t get the same treatment when they start burning and killing.

The reason they all got booked is that they were all involved, and everyone played the “didn’t see nothing” game.

Idiots.


12 posted on 04/23/2022 7:45:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Elderberry; TexasGator

Yeah, still waiting for a legitimate conviction here...


13 posted on 04/23/2022 7:47:49 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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Mr. Little Red Boots ought to know what happened....but he ain’t telling.....


14 posted on 04/23/2022 7:53:30 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: DesertRhino

177 arrests with no convictions after 7 years is an LE fiasco.


15 posted on 04/23/2022 7:55:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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No, that is an overwhelmed system, money, and a judge that wants it to all go away. That combined with small town politics.

The scrotes started shooting, the cops finished it. If it was a LE fisaco, some cops woulda been charged. That was a ‘stay outta Waco” message.


16 posted on 04/23/2022 8:02:42 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Elderberry

This really reminds me of the J6 situation. I guess it will take NYT seven years or more to tell the truth about that.


17 posted on 04/23/2022 8:03:32 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: Repeal The 17th

Never released ballistics. Rumor is most were killed by 5.56


18 posted on 04/23/2022 8:25:23 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain

Where’s the timeline of all of the releases of the bullets?

With assignment in each instance to a shooter and shootee?


19 posted on 04/23/2022 8:29:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Repeal The 17th

Sounds like 1/6 doesn’t it?


20 posted on 04/23/2022 8:33:19 PM PDT by gunnut
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