Posted on 08/08/2015 3:02:42 PM PDT by don-o
An attorney for a biker arrested in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout complained that the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office keeps postponing an examining trial because it has no case against his client and charged that a prosecutor lied to him.
Conrad Beyer, a San Antonio attorney representing Bill Jason McRee, twice has scheduled examining trials in Waco’s 19th State District Court and both hearings have been postponed, including one set for Friday.
While a prosecutor and judge say Beyer agreed to the second postponement, Beyer filed an objection Friday alleging Assistant District Attorney Amanda Dillon misled him about resetting the examining trial on Friday and failed to file a written motion asking for a continuance.
“They are trying to move it back and back and back and try to push the case to a grand jury and are trying to keep from having to put together a case they don’t have,” Beyer said.
After the second continuance, which Judge Ralph Strother said Beyer agreed to Thursday in a telephone conference with Dillon, Strother set McRee’s examining trial for Aug. 28.
Beyer said Friday he has waited long enough. He removed the request for an examining trial from 19th State District Court and filed it in Waco Municipal Court. No date has been set for that examining trial, which gives defendants a forum to question whether there is sufficient probable cause to support their arrests and a chance to get an early view of the state’s evidence.
“I want it out of an elected official’s court, where the court of public opinion does not matter,” Beyer said. “Everyone here is playing C.Y.A.”
Dillon bristled when told Beyer called her a liar. She huddled with McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna and provided a written response to Beyer’s accusations. Reyna declined comment about the filed objection.
Beyer’s objection claims that Dillon improperly talked to Strother without him being present to reset the first scheduled examining trial from July 31 to Friday. He said Dillon told him she talked to the judge and that Beyer was supposed to get an email that the hearing had been rescheduled.
Beyer said he was not informed of the continuance and drove from San Antonio to Waco on July 31 expecting to have the examining trial.
Dillon said she told Beyer that she would call “the court” to move the date.
“At no point did he object to the change and in fact agreed,” Dillon said in her statement. “As I stated to him, I contacted the staff of the court and informed them that there was an agreed reset to the next available setting which was Aug. 7th. At no time did I represent that I contacted or would contact the judge directly, as doing so would be improper. Arguing that the state’s attorney lied to defense counsel is merely evidence that all future communications with Mr. Beyer will be in writing.”
Strother said Dillon did not speak to him but went through his court staff to get the setting changed.
Dillon said Friday’s examining trial had to be postponed because of the recent death of a Department of Public Safety trooper’s mother.
Beyer said the trooper interviewed McRee, a 38-year-old member of the Cossacks biker group who lives in Seagoville, after his arrest but he isn’t sure what the trooper was being called to testify about.
Dillon said Beyer agreed to the telephone conference with the judge and never “raised any issues that are now contained” in his objections filed Friday.
“Furthermore, defense counsel agreed to the current setting of August 28th, 2015. The state stands ready to proceed on the defendant’s examining trial on the
date agreed upon by both parties and the judge,” Dillon said.
17 examining trials
No examining trials have been held yet, but a visiting judge who formerly presided in courts in Bosque, Comanche and Hamilton counties has been approved to hear about 17 examining trials in coming weeks.
Beyer said he has watched a three-hour video of the May 17 shootout captured by cameras at Twin Peaks. He declined comment about the video because of a court order that prevents its dissemination, he said. He said he has seen no video shot by police dashboard cameras.
He said some of those arrested have been given their cellphones back and they all were returned “scrubbed like factory resets,” or with data wiped out.
He said McRee, a motorcycle mechanic, told him he was on the patio sipping iced tea and eating a burger when the shooting began. McRee was only a few feet away from a fellow Cossack when a member of opposing biker group Bandidos shot his friend in the head, Beyer said.
McRee scrambled to help pull people from the parking lot over into the patio area and out of the line of fire, Beyer said. He was crawling to try to help a biker who had been shot in the legs and back when McRee was handcuffed by police, Beyer said.
Let the record show that TG has, on this day, on this forum, in less than an hour, set the standard for transparent trolling that will never be equaled.
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“BS. If 186 “gangsters” had been shooting at each other, there would have been even more dead than the police racked up.”
One of the bikers said that the cops saved a lot of biker lives that day by stopping the war.
Aren’t they supposed to be arrant liars? Choose your position.
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I heard that one of the bikers said that texasgator is a moron.
TG was asked on the thread I linked above to state a position since she stated that her position was being misrepresented.
Prediction: Won't happen.
“Aren’t they supposed to be arrant liars? Choose your position.”
My position is that I have never said they are all arrant liars.
So this time shooting breaks out, police just happen to be there. (ok, maybe give them a plus for being proactive) Fine. How long does it take to collect evidence? Run finger prints, get GSR from hands, check firearms, run ballistics... There were only a few dead and really not that many weapons and people. Why haven't they pressed murder charges against a dozen or so bikers? Why haven't they cleared what must have been most of them on the periphery of the event? Something stinks about the way this whole thing is going down. It *seems* like there is some serious CYA going on and some one or more people are going to be the fall guy(s).
“TG was asked on the thread I linked above to state a position since she stated that her position was being misrepresented.”
Position on what? I am 68 years old. I have a lot of positions on a lot of issues.
I have stated my positions on the Waco situation many times. If you want to criticize my position, you can quote my posts and thus refer to them.
Someone asked my what my position was on the dude in the red boots. My reply was that I had no info on the dude in the red boots ....
ergo ... I have no position?
Yes petty vengeance is not right, but just like arguing with a cop, messing with Judges and DA’s is not a real smart idea, especially if your looking for justice.
The sort of lawyers they are getting no doubt have been given title to everything as collateral and be will more ruthless than Waco Law if the bikers don’t pay the huge bills they’re running up.
“So this time shooting breaks out, police just happen to be there.”
They were there the month before when the fights broke out.
This time they had intel that Bandidos and Cossacks all across the state were coming to Waco for the meeting that had been changed from Austin to Waco ... apparently as an in-your-face to the non-member Cossacks.
“The sort of lawyers they are getting “
Beyer is just two years out of law school.
From his website:
“My specializations lie in Landlord/Tenant, Real Estate, Contracts, Construction, Property, and Probate Law. Expertise in these areas is what I offer to our clients.”
About the rule of law? I do.
You're rather flippant in your attitude concerning justice.
All 186 of them, huh?
He needs to change his moniker from Texas Gator to Texas Statist Boot-Licking Lying Pig.
Can’t have any speedy trials or they’d have to show evidence it was a massacre by the WPD, MSD and ATF.
That means you'd best stay away from many FRiends.
What does one looking for justice DO, if the parties are corrupt. They have to fight somehow. Sucking up to the system will not work.
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