Posted on 07/14/2015 5:32:40 AM PDT by Prolixus
The bench’s gross incompetence and continued hubris seem to be penalizing the innocent and could possibly even prevent those who may be guilty of murder from ever being successfully tried and punished. Which raises another question: Is the McLennan County bench itself guilty of subverting the course of justice?
>>> The judicial clown car of McLennan County just seems to continue down the road, consistently adding riders along the way. From Justice of the Peace Pete Peterson, a former state trooper, setting million-dollar bail amounts based on “cookie-cutter” arrest warrants to “send a message” — try finding that as a reason for bail in the law — to district court judges limiting bond hearings for their own personal convenience, a district attorney allowing the grand jury to be corrupted and a grand juror/police detective “not really” involved in the investigation making determinations as to who does and does not go to trial, the idea of criminal collusion between the bench, the prosecutor and the police is a viable belief, whether true or not. <<<
No additional comment required.
Grand juries are prosecutorial rubber stamps. In reality, if a prosecutor wants someone indicted, the jury could be made up entirely of the dead and have the same indictment result.
Yet, I have seen them return "no true bill." And with 177 "conspirators" a reasonable person would expect that at least a few would not be indicted.
5.56mm
The criminal justice business, tired of being watched by civilians, also obtained a mechanism to avoid grand jury altogether, and nearly all states allow a DA to issue an "Information" without any presentation to or consultation with or agreement from a grand jury, that the state has enough evidence to justify putting the accused through ordeal of trial.
RIMMER: It's time we decided who's going to take the one man escape pod.
CAT: How?
RIMMER: Well, if you'll just bear with me, I think I've devised a fair and equitable system of choosing who should survive. It's based on age, rank, seniority, usefulness, and to cut a long story short, it's me. I was a stunned as you are, which is why I demanded a recount. Well, blow me if it didn't come out as me again. Keys.
After considerable consideration we find ourselves blameless...
What could possibly go wrong?
OTOH, perhaps biker gangs will need to develop a shoot first policy out of shear self defense in any contact with the police.
I thought Texas was supposed to be some bastion of liberty and freedom that so many people on this forum want to run to.
“Corrupt” doesn’t come close to what Waco PD and politics has become. The citizens need to clean house and start over from scratch. If not, here’s to the biker law suits bankrupting the city and county.
It was until liberal headed Kalifornians and Yankees invaded.
>>> I thought Texas was supposed to be some bastion of liberty and freedom that so many people on this forum want to run to. <<<
It was run by Democrats for over a hundred years and we’re still trying to flush all the toilets.
“tie me kangaroo down, sport, tie me kangaroo down...”
” and nearly all states allow a DA to issue an “Information” without any presentation to or consultation with or agreement from a grand jury, that the state has enough evidence to justify putting the accused through ordeal of trial. “
Texas requires GJ for felonies.
“I thought Texas was supposed to be some bastion of liberty and freedom that so many people on this forum want to run to.”
Biker gangs are a threat to our freedoms.
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