Posted on 05/26/2018 6:24:20 PM PDT by Elderberry
Two defendants in the Twin Peaks biker shootout who were re-indicted earlier this month on murder and riot charges might be tried together and had a priority trial date set Friday for Jan. 15.
Jeff Battey, 53, of Ponder, and Ray Arnold Allen, 48, of Crum, both members of the Bandidos motorcycle group, were joined in Waco’s 19th State District Court on Friday by four other bikers who were re-indicted May 9 on new charges that will replace the original engaging in organized criminal activity charges.
Judge Ralph Strother called the hearing to get updates on the pending cases.
Of the initial 155 Twin Peaks bikers indicted in the May 17, 2015, shootout that left nine dead and 20 injured, 27 cases remain pending after mass dismissals of the cases by McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna in recent months. Three of those cases are being handled by special prosecutors from Houston, appointed after Reyna recused his office in those cases.
First Assistant District Attorney Robert Moody told Strother on Friday that his office is considering consolidating the trials of Battey and Allen but wanted to discuss the joint trial with their attorneys.
Seth Sutton, who represents Battey, and Brian Walker, who represents Allen, told the judge they were not opposed to a joint trial, but said they need to consider the request and talk it through with their clients before agreeing to it.
“I think right now, we are just excited to have a trial date,” Sutton said after the hearing. “We are excited to have our day in court. We can’t wait until Jan. 15.”
Sutton said he thinks his client has a “pretty obvious self-defense case.”
“Our strategy from day one is to have a chance to tell our story, and our story hasn’t changed,” Sutton said.
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And the Whacko Fluster Cuck continues. I’m just waiting with baited breath for the Civil Rights Trials to start against the City of Whacko, it’s PD, McLennan County, DA Abel Reyna, and any other LEO who shouldered an AR-15 at Twin Peaks. I hate bikers, but in this case, I hope some of them become multi-millionalres and the “good folks” of Whacko, see huge increases in their property taxes or whatever Texas uses to fund their local governments.
that would be sales taxes and property taxes
I’d like to see the millisecond second by millisecond second timeline of who shot who.
3 years to a trial? All charges should be dismissed on that alone. Americans have a RIGHT to a speedy trial. It is not a privilege. There is a very good reason for this being in the Constitution. It prevents witch hunts mainly, and protects people from testimony being forced or changed. In three years, they could turn Mother Theresa into Rambo.
Thanks for update, seems strange to join then together, unless same charges and they were side by side through this.
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