Posted on 02/08/2018 7:46:57 PM PST by Elderberry
An attorney for one of the bikers indicted in the deadly 2015 Twin Peaks shootout said it appears the "Twin Peaks dam" is starting to break with the dismissal of charges against 13 bikers Thursday.
Meanwhile, the same attorney, Brian Bouffard, said McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna only dropped the cases in a show of "moral cowardice by an elected official" to avoid adverse testimony at a scheduled Thursday hearing to disqualify his office.
Two district judges signed orders submitted to them by the DA's office Thursday morning dismissing charges against 13 bikers arrested in the May 17, 2015, Twin Peaks shootout and two recusing the McLennan County District Attorney's Office in two other biker cases.
Besides the 13 dismissals, prosecutor Michael Jarrett told the judges that Reyna also intends to formally refuse eight more cases against bikers who were arrested, but have not been indicted in the shootout that left nine dead and dozens injured.
The dismissals came hours before a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon at which two bikers were asking to disqualify Reyna from handling their cases on a variety of grounds.
That hearing was canceled in light of Reyna's actions.
Reyna did not return phone calls seeking comment Thursday and declined to provide the Tribune-Herald with a written statement he prepared about the dismissals.
Judge Ralph Strother, of Waco's 19th State District Court, said Thursday he plans to ask the Texas Attorney General's Office prosecutorial assistance division to take over prosecution of the case against biker Billy McRee. Reyna agreed to recuse his office in that case, while he dismissed the case against Jorge Salinas.
Salinas, a two-tour Marine combat veteran; and McRee, a mechanic, are both former members of the Cossacks motorcycle group.
(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...
Thank God!
The FB page dedicated to this travesty is on fire.
Lots of stuff happening, none of it boding well for the suits.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/
IBTG...
LOL!
I am nearly aquiver, awaiting his opinion of this.
:D
I found information on who administers the grant.
I'm not sure if she should be contacted or who she reports to, Governor or Lt. Governor?
Website referring to grant and contact information:
http://www.tribalgrants.info/GrantDetails.aspx?gid=35654
State website listing grants:
https://egrants.gov.texas.gov/fundopp.aspx
The County Essential Services Program is the third one down. The name and phone number on the PDF for the County Essential Services Program agree with the information listed at my first link above.
IBTG
This is what happens when prosecutors become corrupted by their ambition and drunk on their own power—along with judges and law enforcement.
Meanwhile, gung ho ideologues celebrate and cheer on the blatant abuse of Constitutional process throughout the entire episode.
The only legacy of this fiasco will be the end of Ael Reyna's career and the numerous, costly civil suits that will likely bankrupt McLennan County.
From the article (emphasis added):
“My client is a decorated Marine combat veteran,” Bouffard said. “He and I took the same oath years ago. Part of that oath is that we will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And I ask you and I ask the public to ask yourselves, what better definition of a domestic enemy of our Constitution than Abel Reyna?”
We need a Thumbs Up button.
TG is right on that.
There will be a “Justice For Reyna” organization, and they will get together and sing Kumbaya with the “Justice For Nifong” fellow travelers.
I’m IA the IB!!
Thanks
LOL
Had to puzzle that one out.
;)
Now you’re IA the IA the IB!!!
*brain explodes*
“I work with one of the defendants. He has been signed with a civil lawyer for over a year. Now he is getting offers four to five times a week. The lawyers know this will be one of the biggest disasters of all time - and they can smell blood.”
I have nothing but enmity for the criminal biker groups, but I hope when the dust settles, and these Texas Tick Turds who run Whacko and McLennan county are in jail, the name WACO is changed by its “new wealthy owners” to Cossackville, Texas. And every resident will have a personal tax bill every year for the rest of their effing lives paying off the judgements the bikers win against the city and county. Plus the cops who shot people with AR-15’s should be charged with murder, convicted and sent to Huntsville to be put to death.
Thanks again, good news for some Pray complete Dam breaks
Why did the state approach it this way?
The legal proceedings are the punishment.
More than 100 bikers, including 11 whose cases were dismissed Thursday, have civil suits pending against the district attorney's office and the Waco police department claiming that they were wrongfully arrested.
A federal judge in Austin had stayed the cases pending the outcome of their criminal cases. Dallas attorney Don Tittle, whose firm is representing 122 bikers' civil cases, said he hopes the dismissals mean "that there's no longer any impediment" to proceeding in civil court.
If there is one trait universal to nearly every biker I’ve met, it is Resolve.
Like I have been saying since day #1. The authorities screwed up. So what we are seeing is the “limited, modified hangout” strategy to cover it up. Look to Kent State and The Ludlow Massacre as examples. You drag things out for ten years and then appoint a commission to “get to the bottom of it” and find some low level lackies to wrist slap so you can claim it is “time to heal” or whatever cliche and everything quietly goes away. I said from the beginning that time would prove me right and here we are, 3 years in. 7 years to go.
‘bout time.
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