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.
Suggested reading: "Hitler's Willing Executioners." The book focuses on the actions of Nazi Reserve Police Battalions (in the Army, like MPs) in Poland. These were not rabid SS or Gestapo, they were a notch above 4-Fs, drafted into service. Average age in their 30s, family men with children. When put in uniform and given orders to shoot Jewish women and children, they followed orders.
In a SWAT scenario in the USA, the SWAT snipers will deploy where they are told to deploy. Once one person fires a shot, they will all dump a magazine.
You are right in that. I was just thinking that it was like mud wrestling with a pig; it only makes the pig happy.
I do have a small amount of field experience in the terminal performance of certain rifle cartridges, though, including the one most likely used in that AR variant that cop is carrying around in the previous post by Travis...
Recommended reading:
“Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”
Thank you.
Funny how Waco is always the focus of government slaughters?
Asked the Missus to order it.
It’s very, very powerful.
There is nothing magical about the America personality that would cause American soldiers (or SWAT cops) to disobey orders from their chain of command. Nothing.
Even a low velocity round will pass through unless it hits bone. At close range even 9 mm will pass through the head, trust me, I have personally seen plenty. No way a .223 did not pass through everything. The “tumbling” legend is a myth. Supersonic rounds pass a shock wave through the tissue which grows comically as the track progresses. As gas entrained behind the bullet expands explosively the tissue that is shattered by the shock wave follows the round out the exit wound with most of the gas leaving a very characteristic wound. It is easy to tell the difference at a glance. Unless a handgun round struck spine I would not expect to see any retained bullets.
One could make an argument that Poles in the 1930’s should have had a more solid traditional Christian moral formation than does a typical American in the 21st century.
Agreed. And it’s also useful to compare Weimar Germany’s “decadence” to America’s today.
Compared to America today, Weimar Germany, leading up to the Nazis, was Mayberry RFD.
We have raised an entire generation of atheistic, me-centered nihilists.
They will gladly put on black uniforms and march “reactionaries” into gas chambers. All they need are the orders from authorities.
This is why the coroner knows what happened and has known since the first few minutes he spent with the bodies. That report tells the story. If it supported LE it would be known. Go back and look at any other case you wish. These reports are only suppressed when they hurt the case. Look at Baltimore. The State Attorney still won’t release the report on Freddie Gray. When the report exonerates they have the coroner under the Klieg lights ASAP.
Many times murderer suspects don’t have $1 million bail. By now the coroner knows exactly who zoomed who. Since they are still keeping over a hundred people in jail I’m getting suspicious. If the bikers had shot each other there would have been a news conference already and the cops would be trumpeting it on TV.
Exactly. If the police reports, medical reports, audiotapes and videotapes were exculpatory, they would already be out.
Instead, the Waco PD has clamped censorship over the entire case.
This was just copied from Aging Rebel’s latest:
WACO SO FAR
It has been 19 days since the worst episode of “biker violence“ in the history of the United States.
There were no homicides at Hollister in 1947 or at two “motorcycle riots” in Riverside, California in the ensuing year. There were three homicides in Harrah’s Casino during the Laughlin Riot in 2002. There was one homicide in the Sparks Shootout in 2011. There were nine homicides in the Waco Massacre on May 17 and although the police might not have killed all nine or shot 17 more they have been acting like they did ever since.
Waco police immediately sealed the entire shopping center, the Central Texas Market Place, in which the homicides and other injuries occurred and kept it closed for 72 hours while all evidence and possible evidence – including an unknown number of private cars, trucks and motorcycles – was removed and hidden. Police spokesman W. Patrick Swanton immediately tried to panic the nation into blind acquiescence with a storyline that made Tom Laughlin’s The Born Losers look thoughtful and subtle.
One hundred seventy-six people were arrested with the probable cause that they were bikers so they probably caused the deaths and injuries. Effectively, small town officials in Waco were given carte blanche to ruin the lives of scores of completely innocent people.
http://www.agingrebel.com/12981
More from Aging Rebel: “WACO SO FAR”
Habeas Corpus
Waco is not a murder story. Waco is first and foremost an example of how easily Americans can be denied fundamental human rights. Secondly, it illustrates how uninterested most of America is in the fundamental human rights of their fellow citizens. There is no national outcry over the falsely imprisoned. The President has not heard of it. Neither has Hillary Clinton.
It is particularly ironic that all this is happening so close to the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta which established the basic right of all the English speaking peoples of habeas corpus – which can be broadly defined to mean that a free man cannot be imprisoned without a formal statement of specifically what he did and to whom. Waco has repealed habeas corpus.
Yesterday, Waco also repealed the Texas Public Information Act which is intended to provide the public with basic information about police and other governmental affairs: Like for example, the unredacted front page of all police reports. Yesterday, 18 days after the massacre that sent the nation and most of the Western World into a panic, the Waco police released 19 random pages, including one mostly blank page, after repeated requests by local and national news media. In a formal request for the Texas Attorney General’s permission to break the law, an assistant Waco city attorney wrote, “The need to withhold the information pertaining to an open and pending case in order to deal with the detection, investigation, and/or prosecution of a crime is a compelling reason for nondisclosure.”
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