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Are eeeeeeeevil bikers living rent free in the Alligators head?

It must be one of those dimly lit rooms.

I get the impression Princess likes it to be sort-of dark.

This affair looks weirder and weirder the longer it wears on.

From early on, more than few expressed the opinion that Mclennan County looked to be deliberately slow-walking and delaying, as much as possible.

I suppose that sort of thing has become such a commonplace technique, often for the convenience of the prosecution, that slow-walk extension tactics are as second nature. One would think instead, that if they really had things dead to rights, they'd just as soon out with it, and get the ball(s) rolling.

Each delay adds to the sense that in regards to a great many who have been charged, there is lack of solid evidence to make the allegation of 'conspiracy' stick & stay to conviction, unless the DA's can continue to sell (without needing to expend much effort in selling) the guilt by association idea.

That mentality, shallow as it is, has a few subscribers.

Now we hear the fuzz hired a phalanx of lawyers in anticipation of this affair.

I don't find that to be an altogether unreasonable response. There are a lot of cases, with likely when viewed all at once, present quite strong possibility for producing significant amount of procedural issues (which of course, sadly enough? the DA.s office will try to exploit to the fullest extent possible) all of which would take time.

Yet for those who the DA's should know by now were not participants in the melee, and more accurately not part of any of the shootings unless a victim, there is no reason for continuing to hold charges against those persons, other than as part of legal strategy and tactic to make it easier for DA's to win conviction for those they may be more sure of having sufficient, direct evidence against. Perhaps.

I have no reason to put all that much trust in the process. I know that LEO's can fabricate & spin 'stories' just like most any human being is capable of knowingly blowing smoke & telling lies, and I know that prosecutors will play deadly games while seeking to win conviction.

I did watch most all of the George Zimmerman trial. The prosecution seemed to have attempted to get away with every little trick they could to convict Zimmerman, even while seeming to know that the man was not truly guilty of anything much other than self-defense.

So who will the DA's try to put on trial first? Those they have little actual proof against, and hope they can squeeze convictions out of the process anyway, or those who they are more certain they could successfully prosecute?

That commonly is a sign of planning to do the expedient thing rather than the right thing (and would-be biker stings have gotten stung before).

Expedience is not altogether a bad thing, as long as the right thing is valued more than "winning" a court proceeding, which (theoretically) must seek actual & verifiable truth itself, not just someone's opinion of what truth is, or what can be said while holding one's mouth a particular way in order to win conviction in doubtful, borderline instances.

Officers of the court, at least used to be duty bound (theoretically) to serve the Court as agents, to find and establish what could be recognized as any truth to a matter. Not -- focus only on what would make a prosecutorial side of a proceeding rack up a win.

This is an extremely important principle, yet we seem to have much lost sight of that, paying it lip service only, if we ever actually had adherence to that principle in the first place.