[don-o]

Sealed indictments. Hmmmmm.....

[Travis McGee]

The same rubber-stamp mass-indictment could just as easily be turned against conservatives, say at a Tea Party rally where violence broke out. Even if the violence was caused by govt agents-provocateurs.

[Paladin2]

Speedy trials don’t seem to be in the offing.

[a fool in paradise]

“Houston attorney Paul C. Looney, who represents Cody Ledbetter”

Can Cody sing well?

http://www.biography.com/people/lead-belly-39541

Huddie Ledbetter, better known as “Lead Belly,” was born in the late 1880s..

In December 1917, Ledbetter was arrested and charged with murder and was found guilty. Prison is where it seems he picked up the nickname Lead Belly. In early 1924, only a few years into a 20-year sentence, Lead Belly sang for Texas governor Pat Neff a song in which he asked for a pardon. A year later, Neff pardoned Lead Belly and he was a free man.

Only five years later, Lead Belly was involved in a stabbing incident that led to “assault with intent to murder” charges and another prison sentence. Budget issues causes by the Great Depression allowed him to apply for early release, which he did, and the sitting governor approved the application in 1934. (He also sang a song to this governor, pleading for release.)...

[Flick Lives]

Looney's motion says the state's theory that the bikers are guilty by "arriving at Twin Peaks for a bike-club informational meeting" while wearing motorcycle jackets bearing insignias of either Cossacks or Bandidos in "a show of force for a criminal street gang" can't be supported by the evidence.

I remember, once upon a time, a country where there was the right of assembly and freedom of association.

[mad_as_he$$]

“Nine of those indictments were sealed because the defendants had not yet been arrested. Three of those bikers named in sealed indictments turned themselves in to the county jail Monday and the indictments were unsealed.”

So thy cops arrested everyone in sight at TP and even people that weren’t there(but in Waco) and still didn’t get everyone that was billed by the grand jury? What a fiasco.

[rfreedom4u]

And how much more will it cost if everyone requests a jury trial?

[theBuckwheat]

>>
McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna said the remaining 80 cases from the Twin Peaks melee will be handled “in one form or fashion.”
<<

What happened to the obligation for a speedy trial? There must be something in the water in this county, because this is not the first time that government has lost its mind and gone to war against its citizens. A number of the victims from the previous debacle are still in prison for non-murder.

[Fhios]

"Most of the defense lawyers believe that you cannot have a conviction based on the notion that these people showed up at Twin Peaks in a show of force," Looney said. "Most of us believe that theory is flawed and that the appellate courts will not support a conviction on it.

I seem to recall something about the right to assembly. Why are they calling this 'prosecution theory'? What's the theory? That the first amendment doesn't exist?

[Parley Baer]

I have no doubt the coming lawsuits are going to cost the county big time.

[Prolixus]

If conspiring to "show up in force" is a felony then that will be the end of flash mobs.