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.
It will tumble in the air as it transitions to subsonic. I suspect that the myth of the “tumbling .223” was started when they were trying to get the troops to accept the “Matel rifle”. It was easier to create an untruth than to teach physics to 19 year old draftees. Personally, after carrying a 03-A3 at 11 lbs. hour after hour day after day deer hunting as a teen I would have been grateful had someone handed me a 5 lb rifle with twice as many bullets. Maybe that’s just me.
One thing we know. There was a gang there that came with violence in mind. The Waco PD. Why?
Where is the coroner’s report that supports the “it started with gang members shooting each other.” I want to see it, including the photos that support the claims that LE only fired after those shots. Even that is troubling but we don’t even have that bare minimum.
There was a gang that came there with violence in mind that was affiliated with government, not necessarily the Waco PD. Could even be that a lot like the criminal biker gangs, the Waco PD is just a small auxiliary of the overall “organization.” Ironic. But then again, my wise, savvy ol’ pop always warned us kids: A lot of times, the only difference between the police and the criminals is the uniform.
So I just watched the TV news where I learned that the Klown released 6 known senior Al Queda from Gitmo, one of whom was a “master instructor of bomb making” all of whom had advance knowledge of 9/11 2001. Meanwhile our US Attorney General got nothing to say about over a hundred US Citizens who are being held for murders they had nothing to do with nor any foreknowledge of. Enlighten me please because I am really struggling to understand this Sh!t.
“Enlighten me please because I am really struggling to understand this Sh!t.”
Bandidos own Texas
Bandidos run Texas CoC
Cossacks don’t want to pay dues to Bandidos
Cossacks want to wear Bandido lower rocker Texas patch
Bandidos and Cossacks have been at war for months
Waco is Cossack territory.
Bandidos normally hold meetings in Austin.
This meeting was held in Waco.
Over 50 non-Cossacks show up wearing the Texas Rocker.
Clear now! GANG WAR!
” I want to see it, including the photos that support the claims that LE only fired after those shots. “
At least seven eyewitnesses have stated the gangs shot first. In fact one biker there said the cops acted professionally and he had no complaints.
I don't think a coroner's report would be able to tell you that, however at the bail hearing for Laurence Kemp today an assistant DA told the judge there is video of Cossacks and Bandidos shooting each other dead at close range.
I am confident that a prosecutor would not make such a statement to a judge in a Texas court room unless there was such video evidence showing exactly how the shoot out got started.
Who cares about some ridiculous LAT article? Where are the videos? Where are the autopsies? Where is the third party review of the evidence?
I expect to see a coroners report and accompanying photos to support that statement, the three dead from handgun wounds. I have fairly extensively posted today why this is important and in detail explained how. If such video exists this is the first I am hearing it. If these things are true the Waco PD has monumentally screwed up how they have handled this from before day one.
Quislings hanging from the tree was prophecy.
Maybe if you spent less time trashing Texas law enforcement and more time doing some basic research you'd be better informed.
Where are the videos? Where are the autopsies? Where is the third party review of the evidence?
Just ordered it. There was a couple more there that interested me. I will probably get them later.
And maybe where they shot them? Head, chest..etc..??
The same LE that claimed it started in the bathroom. That is until the Twin Peaks franchisee released video showing that was not true? The same LE that let 200+ people gather in what turned out to be a free fire buzz saw? That LE? The same LE that arrested almost 200 people on unconstitutional fill in the name warrants? The same LE that has kept those folks in jail going on three weeks now on phony trumped up charges for crimes they pretty clearly never committed? That LE? That is the LE you now want me to trust? On a background of Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Extortion 17, 0bamacare, and a clear memory of Ruby Ridge, and the first Waco? That is the LE you want me now to trust? Just to be sure, now, one more time. Well, we will see tomorrow. Sounds like Waco Court House will be surrounded with a thousand or so folks that feel a lot more like me than you. Coincidentally, at the same time Ferguson Mo. Will be hosting a Soros paid for “spontaneous” demonstration. Shall we contrast how our gummint treats the two? Then you can boast about Texas LE. I’m sorry, but most of us are flat out of patience trusting our gummint. I think I have been pretty patient and gone to pretty extensive lengths to point out that our gummint has done some things like Ludlow and Kent State in the past and each day this looks more and more like those mistakes than anything else and you have the NERVE to accuse me of running down LE? Are you kidding?
“Well, we will see tomorrow. Sounds like Waco Court House will be surrounded with a thousand or so folks that feel a lot more like me than you. “
You and your gangsta friends. I knew your true colors would finally come out.
I have always believed that “public servants” who took an Oath to the US Constitution would honor that Oath and not only question orders given which seem to be in violation of that Oath, but refuse to obey them. They have a moral obligation to do so, it seems to me.
I first took the Oath on March 4, 1963, and have taken it eight times since in the course of my military career. As an Oathkeeper, I have repeated it several times at Oathkeepers meetings. I have never violated that Oath.
It has become apparent to me over the past few years that the Oath no longer has the power over “public servants” that it once had — people do what they need to do to keep their job, Oath be dammed!
We are at a critical point in our Republic’s life. If Patriotism, Love of Country and Constitution and Rule of Law do not become more meaningful in the day-to-day functioning of our society, we may very well become a failed state.
I am not willing to bequeath a failed state to my children, my grandchildren or my countrymen!
'Cause it ain't there; it went all the way through and then went somewhere else...
Just what are your “true colors”?
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