Posted on 05/26/2015 7:09:58 PM PDT by mac_truck
An attorney for two men arrested in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout between rival bikers says his clients are being held illegally and is seeking to replace all McLennan County judges connected to the case.
Austin attorney Adam Reposa alleges in motions filed Tuesday that the charging documents filed against his clients, and the 168 others jailed in the chaotic melee, are legally insufficient.
He also claims that the $1 million bonds are unreasonably oppressive and that the judge who set them and the judges who, so far, have not reduced them have shown bias and should be recused.
Reposa represents Jimmy Pond and Thomas Paul Landers. He said Pond, a mechanic from Hays County, is the sole supporter of his family, which includes a disabled wife and autistic son.
Besides the recusal motion, Reposa filed an application for writ of habeas corpus, alleging a client is being held illegally and without proper cause, and a motion for emergency release so Pond can go home and take care of his family.
After the shootout, in which nine were killed and 18 wounded, Reposa said officials “commandeered” the Waco Convention Center as a makeshift holding area while they tried to sort out the magnitude of the event.
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Hurt dog hollers.
Kick my ass to the curb for expressing an opinion? Now you sound like a liberal.
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Nope. They’ll just become more active on one of their other screen names.
The Mafia always had good attorneys too
Fine. Stick to the issues.
No, just amazed at the world class canyon leap you made on something I didn’t even mention. Knievel has nothing on you.
The police don’t have to run their investigation to suit your time-table or anyone else’s...and it will be the autopsies and forensic reports that determine who shot who where and when.
Releasing video evidence now just gives the perps an opportunity to line up their stories.
Funny, how so many civilians twinkle toe around in hunker positions with their rifles stuck up in front of their eyeballs. ...wouldn’t work very well in a real fight outdoors, but it’s so tacticool, you know.
Once upon a time I thought when someone is charged with a felony and bond is set it was based on a bill of particulars or otherwise known as specific charges...
That must not be the case when the Jackboots go on a live fire op. People just look the other way cause “they’re just thug bikers that had it coming...”?
Next week it could be the Bundy Ranch!
Good questions - don’t forget.
How many police/BATFE/FBI personnel discharged weapons? How many rounds?
How many other (civilian owned) firearms recovered were discharged?
I would really like to know the answer to these...
and how long is that going to take? Months? Years? The Autopsies are done and there is video of the parking lot shootings, however they have not been released. It has been several weeks now and it is smelling pretty bad at this point.
Also, you cannot arrest 170 people stick with a million dollar bail, just because they were there. Remember this little thing in the Constitution? “
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted”
Ha! It’s been how long? You’re telling me there hasn’t been one bullet pulled out of a killed person from this shooting and processed through the crime lab? Not one?
Please. Had a biker dropped a cop with a AK type rifle I’d bet the farm that would have been front page news in less than 24 hrs after it happened that the cal. And ammo matched!
The silence tells the story. I bet all head and torso kills were 5.56 perhaps a few 7.62-.308.
Hard to propel those with chains and knives
” it will be the autopsies and forensic reports that determine who shot who where and when.” - MT
So, the police have no idea which officers discharged their weapons?
They should know that ten minutes after the shooting stopped. If we had a good press, they would hound the police for this vital info.
If the info was favorable to the police, it would be out by now, in my opinion.
“Next time, it will be something like an open-carry 2nd Amd rally.”
Do they have gang fights at open-carry rallies? I never heard of one.
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>> “Somebody might tell this attorney that a number of people were killed in the event.” <<
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But apparently not by those being held.
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There was a gun fight at a draw a cartoon image just a couple of months ago.
Note:The FBI, DOJ and BATF stayed home that night so the death toll was kept in check.
“He said Pond, a mechanic from Hays County, is the sole supporter of his family, which includes a disabled wife and autistic son. “
Nice family man. Hanging out on a Sunday afternoon with his family...
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