Posted on 06/05/2015 6:10:07 AM PDT by don-o
An Austin attorney on Thursday filed a petition asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to intervene in the release of more than 100 bikers that have remained incarcerated since the deadly May 17 shooting in Waco that killed nine.
Austin attorney Keith S. Hampton is asking the court to order the district judge who presides over the Waco region to start arrangingbond hearings for the bikers still in McLennan County Jail on $1 million bails.
To help with the large amount of suspects, the bond hearings would be conducted by judges outside McLennan County.
“If the county gets deluged with arrests it has a duty to assign judges to handle the backlog and is supposed to do it without delay,” Hampton said.
If the petition is granted, retired Williamson County District Judge Billy Ray Stubblefield would be the one to oversee and appoint judges from the 26-county region that includes Travis and McLennan counties to conduct bail hearings. Hampton’s petition asks the appeals court to order Stubblefield to begin making appointments, court documents said.
The release of bikers has been moving slowly, but has sped up in the past week as motions and lawsuits against McLennan County have rolled in from lawyers across the state seeking the quick release of their clients.
After the shooting that started at the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant, Waco police filed blanket charges of engaging in organized crime — a first-degree felony — against more than 170 bikers. The $1 million bails have prevented most of them from being released. In total, 47 bikers have been released, according to the Waco Tribune.
Hampton has not been hired by any of the bikers. He said after seeing reports of the slow-moving process, he decided to file as a petitioner to jump-start bond hearings.
On Thursday, a visiting judge also denied a request from Austin attorneys George Lobb and Adam Reposa to recuse McLennan County district judges from all cases related to the May 17 shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, which authorities believe was a result of a biker gang turf war.
Lolz...
You find it funny that an attorney intervenes to attempt to secure due process?
Still no coroner’s report.
They already KNOW what kind of bullet was recovered from each dead body. That should be in the autopsy report. Why will they not release this information?
If a body has pistol ammo, he was possibly shot by a biker. If it has rifle ammo, he was shot by a rifle. There is no indication that any bikers were packing long guns.
If he has rifle ammo in him and fell in the parking lot, a video should show he was shooting or stabbing and it may have been a good shoot by LE.
If he has rifle ammo in him and fell somewhere away from the ruckus in the parking lot, he may be victim of a missed shot from a LE rifle. That would be a bad shoot.
Today, to these people, anybody who rides a Harley is biker scum, and any cop who shoots them is a hero, no matter what. If they saw Jews being marched to the gas chambers, they would cheer for the SS.
If he was shot with a rifle he most likely won’t have a bullet in him. Good chance he won’t have a bullet in him if he was shot with a handgun of any significance.
The wound channels would be different, but it would seem not really provable as to exactly what caliber.
Posting selfies again?
Modern forensics will show where EVERY SLUG came from—where EVERY SINGLE CASE landed (and thus where all shots came from) and who DID (and who did NOT) fire which weapon.
Most we know—I’ll bet ALL—were head/neck shots. Cop snipers are trained to shoot for the head if the ‘target’ is wearing any kind of vest, as were all bikers . I have seen NO evidence of pistol fire.
Probably, some wannabe biker—or a FAKE (cop) biker got into trouble and some kind of commotion resulted. Then, our militarized police/SEAL/whatevers went ballistic—LITERALLY.
I have a VERY BAD feeling here. I hope Waco has some VERY DEEP pockets. The will need them. Randy Weaver’s kids got a million each.
Those are good points. I do not mind admitting when I post w/o expertise and am glad to be corrected / enlightened with factual information.
Only 4 or 5 victims died in the kill zone. The rest probably died on the patio, from police bullets that missed their mark in the kill zone.
I agree 100%. But the Waco CSI’s may be part of the coverup, and will claim, “There was so much shooting, it’s just mass confusion,” to avoid pinning the deaths on police rifles.
Why don’t you make it official and join OWS?
And thank goodness that LT Calley and his brave soldiers just happened to stroll past My Lai just in time to stop a shootout between feuding Vietnamese villagers.
My view is that the police's own actions convict them. and for what it is worth, I would ignore the nips of the moles, plants, traitors, and judas goats on here.
Don’t expect one until it exonerates the police.
We’ll find out the truth, even if it has to be leaked from within the Waco PD.
For one thing, you can bet for a fact that the Waco PD chief and SWAT commander have an exact round count for every police weapon, before and after. They know exactly who fired how many rounds. We’ve already seen photos of at least a dozen police with AR-15s. The Waco PD knows exactly how many 5.56mm rounds were fired.
This number alone is enough to blow their cover story, which is that “LT Calley and his company just happened to stroll past My Lai in time to stop a shootout between feuding villagers.”
As far as jackboot lickers who excuse police massacres, I will never give them a pass. Never.
I cannot decide if we have invincible ignorance of history and human nature or an unshakable belief that “American exceptionalism” means that it could never happen here.
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