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Have political ambition, cronyism compromised DA Abel Reyna?(Waco)
WacoTrib ^ | 2/24/2018 | BILL WHITAKER

Posted on 02/25/2018 10:17:34 AM PST by Elderberry

A few weeks ago, West resident Don Garretson took stock of McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna’s failure to convict Dallas Bandidos chieftain Jake Carrizal last fall; the likelihood of similar failures in prosecuting 154 motorcyclists indicted in the deadly 2015 Twin Peaks biker shootout; and, finally, more than a hundred potentially costly lawsuits alleging Reyna led in the slaughter of these bikers’ civil rights, upending lives, careers and family savings.

Then, in a letter to the Waco Tribune-Herald, Garretson let out what might be interpreted as a primordial taxpayer scream.

“What will be the source of these payouts?” he wrote. “These expenditures will not benefit the taxpayers, thus they should not have to pay for these costs in the form of increased fees and taxes.”

Garretson’s thoughts echo the frustrated multitude we’ve heard from in the nearly three years since members of rival motorcycle groups clashed at Twin Peaks restaurant in a Waco shopping center. And no wonder the mounting concern: Overtime bills for heightened courthouse security during the first and only Twin Peaks biker trial have sucked more than a half-million dollars from county coffers. Add more costs for transporting witnesses to Waco and providing them with lodgings. And yet the big trial proved to be a fumbling prosecutorial affair that left jurors bored and unconvinced and ended in a mistrial.

While law and order might have been the priority when Waco police sought to contain the violence between Bandidos, Cossacks and auxiliary biker groups that left nine dead and 20 injured on May 17, 2015, the specter of politics has increasingly dominated the saga. Bikers’ defense attorneys allege Reyna sought to use the Twin Peaks tragedy to leap-frog to loftier political posts. To bolster this claim, some attorneys have assembled sworn affidavits that establish a pattern of

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biker; reyna; waco

1 posted on 02/25/2018 10:17:35 AM PST by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry

Bump,,,thanks for the up-date


2 posted on 02/25/2018 10:23:07 AM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: piroque

Johnson promises, if elected, to revisit charges against gangsters that were dismissed.


3 posted on 02/25/2018 10:43:14 AM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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To: TexasGator

Good thing you’re in Florida and not voting in TX. Or are you voting in both?


4 posted on 02/25/2018 11:03:31 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Interesting!

Dudes here supporting the gangsters are slamming Renya hoping he will not get reelected and the gangsters will not be prosecuted only to find out that Renya’s opponent will go back and revisit charges against the gangsters that Renya dismissed!


5 posted on 02/25/2018 11:11:51 AM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Elderberry

Good Read, Thank you


6 posted on 02/26/2018 7:50:24 PM PST by easternsky
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