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I think that decision was made months ago. I have a vague recollection of reading a report that the biker cases wouldn't be put before the GJ that had a cop as foreman. The report was part of the action when Broden filed a motion on the subject, a day or so after the cop was named to the GJ. At the time, the reports also went on that the biker cases would remain in limbo until October, when another GJ would be empaneled.

IMO, that's too long to be stand accused without specificity, but that's what Texas law allows.

I'm having a tough time figuring out what the DA wants with COCI meeting minutes. Maybe he thinks he'll find something inculpatory in there, but my guess is that this is a dry well as far as supporting the accusation of conspiracy.

Perhaps the intent is to grasp for some straw by which the records of previous meetings might be excluded from a trial.

The rhetoric from the prosecution from day one has centered on trying to portray a regularly held stogy political information meeting as being a mafia hit planning sessions. Decades of political meeting minutes call into question every decision that was made by law enforcement.

Like TG, city officials who signed off on the BATF’s mad scheme may have imagined motorcyclists to mostly be like Hell's Angels. During this time before anything goes to trial the script may have been to arrest the attendees on a blizzard of drug, petty theft, and prostitution charges, parole violations, etc... By the time of any trials the criminal deeds of the motorcycle clubs were supposed to bury the actual events at Twin Peaks in a blanket of nefarious charges occurring after the event and cloaking any wrong doing on part of the government in a air of necessity

The bikers haven't lived up to the intended narrative, and only now is it dawning on officialdom that they never will.