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Biker’s attorney files emergency appeal of gag order (re Waco Twin Peaks shooting)
Waco Tribune-Herald ^ | July 1, 2015 | TOMMY WITHERSPOON

Posted on 07/01/2015 5:10:55 PM PDT by Prolixus

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...because his client has not been indicted, 54th State District Judge Matt Johnson had no jurisdiction to impose a gag order...
1 posted on 07/01/2015 5:10:55 PM PDT by Prolixus
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To: Prolixus

If the police have done nothing wrong, they shouldn’t have anything to hide.


2 posted on 07/01/2015 5:14:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Prolixus

Good catch.


3 posted on 07/01/2015 5:17:41 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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I wonder if we’ll ever get to see the autopsy reports.


4 posted on 07/01/2015 5:19:58 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod (I have five dollars for each of you)
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To: Prolixus
Why Gag Orders on Trial Participants Are Almost Always Unconstitutional
5 posted on 07/01/2015 5:24:35 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: Prolixus

>>> ...because his client has not been indicted, 54th State District Judge Matt Johnson had no jurisdiction to impose a gag order... <<<

More and more Interesting every day!


6 posted on 07/01/2015 5:40:06 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: kiryandil
"If the police have done nothing wrong, they shouldn’t have anything to hide."

Where have I heard that before?

7 posted on 07/01/2015 5:45:37 PM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: kiryandil

It’s not all hidden. The mass arrest of 177 people and holding them on $1,000,000 bail is absolutely wrong. The Waco PD has admitted to firing 12 rounds of .223 caliber bullets from their military grade, high powered, M4 assault rifles into a busy shopping area’s parking lot. Many people would find fault with that if only the MSM would push that aspect of the event.

On the other hand, for example, an answer as to what were the M4 armed police aiming at and did they hit their targets is still a mystery.


8 posted on 07/01/2015 5:45:42 PM PDT by Prolixus (Why does Waco make me think of Benghazi?)
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To: kiryandil

Despite the paucity of facts, we do have enough from the police ALONE to raise serious questions.

In the immediate aftermath, Swanton said that they basically saw it coming. Yet, several days later, Stroman informs that his men were SITTING IN THEIR VEHICLES.

Later still, we get an affidavit (constructed from videos per internal references) that there were signs of impending conflict on the site, before the first shot was fired and while the Waco PD was SITTING IN THEIR VEHICLES. Stroman stated that his men got out of their vehicles AFTER the first shot.

The Waco PD has scrubbed their previous updates from their facebook and now have a judge putting a gag order on the attorneys.

These factors point to, at the very least, a poorly prepared and executed operation. I believe that they all know that and are hoping it will somehow just all blow over.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times and more, I don’t even know what to say.


9 posted on 07/01/2015 5:50:07 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: Prolixus

I want to thank all those posting these stories to keep us up to date on the goings on in Waco.


10 posted on 07/01/2015 5:56:52 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: don-o
Despite the paucity of facts, we do have enough from the police ALONE to raise serious questions.

The actions of the police. alone, make the entire case against them. by the words of their [figurative] mouths, they are convicted.

Does any layman that is capable of independent thought think that if any of the videos would have cleared the police, that they would have been on every media outlet the next day?

11 posted on 07/01/2015 5:58:28 PM PDT by sport
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To: KneelBeforeZod

Not until they have been doctored to clear the police.


12 posted on 07/01/2015 5:59:16 PM PDT by sport
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To: semaj

Well, for one, it is what they tell the people on COPS when they object or hesitate to answer when they say, “Can we search your car?” The police always respond with, “If you got nothing to hide, why do you object”?


13 posted on 07/01/2015 6:02:26 PM PDT by sport
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To: semaj
Where have I heard that before?

Well, usually - the gruberment prosecutors & their armed enforcers are saying that to the peasantry...

14 posted on 07/01/2015 6:19:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Prolixus
It’s not all hidden. The mass arrest of 177 people and holding them on $1,000,000 bail is absolutely wrong. The Waco PD has admitted to firing 12 rounds of .223 caliber bullets from their military grade, high powered, M4 assault rifles into a busy shopping area’s parking lot. Many people would find fault with that if only the MSM would push that aspect of the event.

Here is another fact you may want to add:

"It seems McClennen Co. has their own bail bond business. It’s in the County courthouse."
15 posted on 07/01/2015 6:20:56 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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The police always respond with, “If you got nothing to hide, why do you object”?

Ooo! Ooh! [Raise hand, big smile] If it's a quiz, pick me, officer! Pick me!

Because the Founding Fathers would have objected! You got something against the Founding Fathers, officer?

16 posted on 07/01/2015 6:24:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: don-o; Prolixus; sport
Despite the paucity of facts, we do have enough from the police ALONE to raise serious questions.

Wonder when the Tom Sawyer whitewash crew is going to show up on this thread?

17 posted on 07/01/2015 6:26:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Prolixus

I just want to know the truth....

everyday they hide stuff, the smell gets stronger.

I just want the truth.


18 posted on 07/01/2015 6:44:40 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: KneelBeforeZod
I wonder if we’ll ever get to see the autopsy reports.

Or find out who is/was charged with murder and who was wounded. Also why was there enough police there to arrest 177 before anything ever happened. That's 5 greyhound bus loads of prisoners.

19 posted on 07/01/2015 7:34:41 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Prolixus

Putting all your dying hopes on some ambulance chaser who is peeing on the Judge’s back while trying to convince him its raining, are ya? Defying gravity is a tough job.


20 posted on 07/01/2015 7:50:34 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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