Posted on 03/07/2018 9:57:17 AM PST by House Atreides
Barry Johnson ousted two-term incumbent Abel Reyna as McLennan County district attorney, in a contentious race played out under the dark specter of the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout.
Johnson, 61, who practiced personal injury law in Dallas for 30 years before moving back to McLennan County last year, got 10,347 votes for 59.9 percent of the vote to Reyna’s 6,930 for 40.1 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...
We know that he will revisit the dismissals that Reyna gave to the gangsters!
Lol! Johnson has said that Renya dismissed charges against the bikers that should not have been dismissed and has promised to review the cases for possible charges to be reinstated!
Johnson will be harder on the gangsters than Renya!
Yep! Johnson has promised to review for reinstatement the charges against the gangsters that Reyna dismissed!
Yep. Johnson promised the citizens he would review the charges against the gangsters that Reyna dismissed for potential reinstatement!
Doubtful. That town is snakebit.
Your credibility sure talked big time!
"Bianca" Reyna has passed away.
Another sad chapter in "TexasGator And The Real Waco Prosecutor Girl" turns the page.
Will Lars-TG find another "mail-order friend" in Johnson? 
No point in being In Before Texas Gator, because he’ll never show up on this thread... winking face ROFL faceROFL faceROFL face
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Now you’ve done it...he’s arrived to vomit all over the thread.
check my last post - and don’t pee your pants...
LOL — They’re such a sweet couple!
LOL
Admit it, Renya was a punk, like you and a loser. Johnson will try to cut the losses. And I still hope you pay taxes in that county.
If I was representing a defendant, I’d go to a 4 corners offense (for those old enough to remember when whites played college basketball) and stall until January.
Is see now why my posting of the same article @6 this morning was not getting any more hits.
Thanks for the link, and I should have known. I just missed it.
Waco – Which lever do you pull, which button to push when it comes to ridding a jurisdiction of a DA bent on criminally negligent practice?
Barry Johnson, a hometown barrister Texas “Monthly” labeled one of the state’s “super lawyers,” says he’s willing to answer the question, but it will take time, thought, intensive study.
After all, the situation is very rare.
But he’s got news for the motorcycle enthusiasts targeted by the Twin Peaks prosecutors and their boss, elected DA Abel Reyna.
“If elected, job one will be to assemble a staff of experts on probable cause, indictments, discovery – every aspect of criminal litigation. We will work to evaluate every single charge.
“The goal will be to eliminate the cases with no valid basis in fact.”
The way he says it, it makes one believe he means it.
The affidavits presented to the Grand Jurors who indicted Twin Peaks defendants lack the elements of probable cause and the elements of the offense.
That is something that can be straightened out.
“Reyna has too much of a vested interest,” he declared.
Furthermore, a Court Of Inquiry scheduled for a future date to determine if Manuel Chavez engaged in perjury when he signed the affidavits and if Abel Reyna committed aggravated perjury “is probably the best way” to handle it. When Reyna lied on the witness stand about the admonishment he claimed he gave Chavez to familiarize himself thoroughly with all the elements of the alleged offenses he committed a felony crime; Chavez committed a misdemeanor when he signed an oath stating he has personal knowledge of the offenses, something he later recanted.
When recalled to the witness stand, Chavez later denied any such conversation took place.
For starters, that’s his best thinking on how the mechanisms of the law will work to remove Reyna from the legal scene as anything other than a defendant.
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