Posted on 10/17/2017 7:03:01 PM PDT by Elderberry
The Dallas attorney for the second defendant scheduled to go to trial in the Twin Peaks shootout is pushing back against prosecutors' request to delay his client's November trial date.
The McLennan County District Attorney's Office filed a request for a continuance Tuesday, seeking to postpone the Nov. 6 trial of former biker Matthew Clendennen. A panel of more than 600 potential jurors has been summoned to report to court Oct. 27 to answer questionnaires to aide jury selection.
Clendennen's attorney, Clint Broden, immediately filed an objection to the continuance, saying the delay would further infringe on his client's right to a speedy trial.
"I think it's ridiculous that the (district attorney) has more than 30 attorneys in the district attorney's office and they have four attorneys working on this case," Broden said. "I don't know what they expected when they indicted 155 people and refused to ask for any help."
Broden said he believes the request for the continuance is related to the first trial of a Twin Peaks defendant, Jacob Carrizal, the Bandidos Dallas chapter president, which started last week and remains ongoing.
Carrizal faces a charge of directing the activities of a criminal street gang and two counts of engaging in organized criminal activity in the May 17, 2017, shootout that left nine dead and more than a dozen injured.
"The October 20, 2017, pretrial conference has been set up in this case for more than a month," Broden said in his response to the state's request for a continuance. "At the time it was set, the state was well aware of the dates for the Carrizal trial."
McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna declined to comment Tuesday on the continuance motion or on Broden's objection.
Matthew Johnson, 54th State District Court Judge, is overseeing Carrizal's trail and was originally set to oversee Clendennen's. Johnson stepped down from Clendennen's case earlier this month after Broden filed a recusal motion. Senior Judge Doug Shaver, of Houston, will hear Clendennen's case.
In his objection to the continuance, Broden wrote that Clendennen has repeatedly requested a speedy trial.
"The foolhardy decision to indict 155 motorcyclists, including those like Mr. Clendennen who played absolutely no part in the violence and did not encourage the violence at Twin Peaks, has consequences including providing speedy trials for those indicted," Broden wrote in an email, mirroring part of his filing. "In addition, the District Attorney’s Office has declined to request assistance from outside prosecutorial agencies. The decision by Mr. Reyna's office to seek yet another delay is simply unconscionable."
Broden has also requested a court of inquiry to determine if Reyna or Waco police Detective Manuel Chavez lied under oath during a hearing last year in the Twin Peaks cases. Broden claims Reyna testified to what Broden calls “extensive discussions” he had with Chavez before the detective signed the identical, “fill-in-the-name” arrest warrant affidavits for 177 motorcyclists after the shootout.
Chavez testified he never spoke to Reyna that night.
David Peeples, judge of the Fourth Administrative Region, was selected by First Administrative Regional Judge Mary Murphy, of Dallas, to preside over the court of inquiry.
Broden said he hopes the state is ready for his client's trial Nov. 6. He said he has been ready to defend Clendennen since the day he was indicted.
"Mr. Clendennen has been ready for more than two years," Broden said. "I think people need to know that the source of the delay in these cases is Abel Reyna's district attorney's office."
Doesn’t look like the right to a speedy trial is working here
IBTG.
These trials should have been over by now. Where is the justification of constant delay? Get them before a judge and jury and be done with it already!
I haven’t been keeping up with all this as it goes through the court system.
Can someone who has please paraphrase where we are at in all this please.
If possible; please keep the bias one way or the other out of it. Just the straight up facts as they are at this point please.
When it’s all said and done we can go back to stabbing each other in the neck.... so to speak. For now; just what is actually happening would be greatly appreciated...
” former biker Matthew Clendennen”
I guess getting your bike taken away and going to jail makes you a ‘former’ biker?
Thanks for the post.
Thanks for the update.
This is your typical Lazy, self serving (God like Complex) Prosecutor that is dragging this out as far as he can to financially ruin the defendants or force them to plead out their cases.
Otherwise the cases go to trial and the Prosecutor loses and looks the fool he is.
He is after a guilty plea on some reduced charges (soon to follow) so he can claim a high rate of conviction during re-election.
That’s my personal opinion based on “experience” dealing with assholes like him. Facts don’t matter, it’s about saving face politically now.
I hope the Prosecutor ends up getting Nifonged including having his law license yanked.
Ditto
I guess getting your rights taken away for traveling on two wheels in Waco Texas makes you a ‘former’ citizen? AKA Subhuman . . .
“I guess getting your rights taken away for traveling on two wheels in Waco Texas makes you a ‘former’ citizen? AKA Subhuman . . .”
Duh. They are still murdering, pimping drug-dealing pedophiles. At least in character as recent events have curtailed a lot of their favorite activities!
“I hope the Prosecutor ends up getting Nifonged including having his law license yanked.”
One would wonder why you don’t want the murdering drug-dealing pimping pedophiles in jail ... unless you are part of that scene?
Getting very interesting in Waco when two of the ones running this mess are getting called on the carpet for lying.
You must be deeply scarred and feel the need to holw at the moon because it makes you feel better.
Now that there’s funny...and probably contains a grain of truth.
Yeah - we have a few snowflakes right here on FR...this one in particular seems to think all bikers are drug-crazed pedophiles and deserve whatever a crooked system can railroad them for.
#11 I hope you post a name in your allegations so we can all read about how some boot licking LEO apologist gets a million dollar lawsuit slapped on your sorry ass and loses.
So tough guy, step up to the plate? Got game or just a keyboard commando?
100 bucks donation to Fr says Iam right and the worm prosecutor offers to plead it down if the judge doesn’t grant the delay.
“So tough guy, step up to the plate? Got game or just a keyboard commando? 100 bucks donation to Fr says Iam right and the worm prosecutor offers to plead it down if the judge doesn’t grant the delay.”
Duh, like you are SO SMART!
What other OBVIOUS idea are you going to come up with that everyone already knows but claim it as your bright idea?
“#11 I hope you post a name in your allegations so we can all read about how some boot licking LEO apologist gets a million dollar lawsuit slapped on your sorry ass and loses.”
Care to rewrite your post so it makes sense?
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