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Waco Judge Agrees to Let Most Bikers Go If They Sign Contract Not to Sue for Wrongful Arrest
Washington Weekly News ^ | May 31, 2015 | Looney and Conrad Law Firm

Posted on 06/01/2015 5:57:56 AM PDT by bgill

“It appears the public defenders office in McLennan County is involved in this scurrilous activity,” said Paul Looney, a Houston attorney with Looney & Conrad, P.C. “I’ve never seen anything like the lawlessness that the authorities have perpetrated on these people and now to add insult to injury they are trying to cover their own tracks in exchange for bond.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; copcycle; cultureofcorruption; motorcycles; nifongism; twinpeaks; waco; wacobikers; wacoshootout; whereistheaclu; wrongfularrest
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
“Sign over your water rights to me or I’ll shoot you and your family and burn down your ranch”, went out of vogue a long time ago.

Unless your name is Bundy...

141 posted on 06/01/2015 9:04:46 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: circlecity; bgill; All
Wow, it’s starting to look like the reason the only ones killed were bikers was because the only ones shooting were cops.

And oh-so-interestingly, all but one supposedly belonged to the Cossacks, the other belonging to the Bandidos. Amazing odds, that, supposedly in a fracas where both groups were supposed to be mingling in this fight. Pretty bizarre odds that only members one one of the two gangs was killed, whether it was gang members shooting at each other, or all shot by cops.

And zip, zero, nada word that I've seen on who/how among the injured.

Very, very stinky.

142 posted on 06/01/2015 9:06:16 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: IMR 4350
At some point it stops being “just a coincidence”. I reached that point a long time ago.

Ayup.

143 posted on 06/01/2015 9:10:10 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Travis McGee; All
This atrocity of justice is the most important news story in the USA today, and predictably, the MSM is either silent, or is towing the official Waco PD "biker shootout" cover story line.

BIG OL BUMP.

Rush Limbaugh, who claims the mantle of being the antidote to MSM spin, will show his false colors and go right along with the silent MSM. He lives in fear of being called a "conspiracy theorist" and that fear shackles him. I hope he proves me wrong, but I ain't holding my breath.

144 posted on 06/01/2015 9:12:03 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: bgill

The judge set the bail at one million for all of them “to send a message”. Bail is supposed to be set on whether an individual is a flight risk. With this mindset if one person in a group (or pretending to be) did anything illegal, the whole group could be held without due process.


145 posted on 06/01/2015 9:13:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: JJ_Folderol
‘Several shots’ would be semi-auto, but ‘bursts’?"

Multiple people initiating fast semi-auto fire simultaneously could easily be mistaken for automatic fire. Yet, some PDs certainly do have full auto M-16s and M-4s so who knows.

146 posted on 06/01/2015 9:16:02 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: mac_truck

The 3 bikers that were released due to bail being reduced to $25,000 ($2,500 cash) belong to an antique Harley Davidson club, group, or organization called The Vise Grips. A www search will reveal more inf. about said org. They have a patch of a goat with a mc wheel in the goat’s mouth, their club name, and South Austin, being their locale rocker. Also the #13 diamond, and MC square. There is references to 74’s, possibly the primary year of antique bikes that they ride, restore, rebuild, etc.


147 posted on 06/01/2015 9:16:35 AM PDT by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: bgill

I stand corrected. No did a weekend in Saratoga Springs in the late 70s. Never convicted, all charges tossed. Not sure if I could do much time in Waco. But to piss off the local cops, it might be fun.


148 posted on 06/01/2015 9:17:14 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: bgill

I think a very plausible scenario is that after the first report of gunfire was heard (whether the shot was fired by police or bikers) it turned into a police turkey shoot. That’s certainly happened before.


149 posted on 06/01/2015 9:17:35 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Rusty0604

Don’t remember them rounding up all the Teamsters when the mobbed-up union officials got caught whacking someone.


150 posted on 06/01/2015 9:18:11 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Vermont Lt

A number of them will be wearing ‘soft’ body armor under their uniforms, which will stop most pistol bullets. It also gives the wearer the appearance of being overweight.


151 posted on 06/01/2015 9:18:31 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Travis McGee

Forensics labs have been known to produce false results as they are paid by how many successful prosecutions they help. If the defense has enough resources, they can hire experts of their own, and hope the evidence wasn’t tampered with.


152 posted on 06/01/2015 9:19:01 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: marktwain

such clauses/conditions should be void as a matter of law. Unenforceable in any for and it should be unethical for a prosecutor to demand it or a judge to allow it.


153 posted on 06/01/2015 9:21:55 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SamAdams76
-- So if the bikers do not agree not to sue for wrongful arrest (and imprisonment), the state plans to keep them in jail and compound the error? --

The only tool the state has is force, and it is eagar to use it. The court will not stand in the way of injustice. Courts, like cops, are only for profit and cleanup, after the deed.

154 posted on 06/01/2015 9:21:58 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: mad_as_he$$

My thought is that the bikers, to the extent they were armed with guns, were probably armed mostly with 9 mm, .40 cal., .38, & .357 magnum weapons. Rounds from all of those make very different wounds than .223 & .556 NATO rounds fired from riles. IOW, determine the types of round that inflicted the fatal wounds, and determining who fired those rounds becomes pretty easy. Could be difficult for the LEO types.


155 posted on 06/01/2015 9:22:02 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I think the EPA just resurrected it. Except they don’t even bother with a contract.


156 posted on 06/01/2015 9:24:34 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Nifong


157 posted on 06/01/2015 9:27:42 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Thank you.

Finally the money line appears.


158 posted on 06/01/2015 9:28:52 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: bgill
WELL.
159 posted on 06/01/2015 9:29:50 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Salamander

Well.


160 posted on 06/01/2015 9:32:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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