Posted on 11/20/2015 12:46:34 PM PST by don-o
WACO - Defense attorneys representing bikers who were arrested after a shooting outside a Texas restaurant say they don't have access to key evidence because they refuse to sign the district attorney's unusual agreement to not share it with media.
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The defense attorneys need to get a change of venue out of McLennan County. The place closely emulates Sharia Law due to all of the “incestuous relationships” between the cops, the DA and the Judges. Reyna will ultimately find out about
“The Rule of Holes.”
I know a jurisdiction where the DA, the indigent defense lawyer, and the local bail bondsman are all siblings. It does tend to some smelly procedural writhing.
The right to prepare a defense is rather fundamental
Sounds like DA Reyna has never heard of the Michael Morton Act. He is supposed to share evidence with the defense. He cannot make up his own rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morton_%28criminal_justice%29
I’ve seen three or four pictures of Reyna so far and he impresses me as the kind of guy that I’d cross the street to avoid — a thug in a suit.
Anybody else get that sense of thuggery?
Wow, this is absolutely pathetic. District Attorney Abel Reyna may be “Abel” but he sure as hell is NOT ABLE. He likely is having nightmares of civil suits, disbarment, losing his job and losing any respect he may still have from the low-information types among his peers in the local legal community. Of course, a number of his local Waco judicial and police associates will likely go down with him into disgrace and financial ruin.
Then all you criminal biker’buddies’ need to pitch in to get one of the ambulance chasers to file suit asserting Mortons law is being violated. Otherwise all the cryin to the cameras will get em no where.
Anyone taking bets on how this is going to turn out?
If Reyna wants to keep the evidence out of the public view, he should request that from the judge.
he should be sanctioned up to throwing out the cases...
Waco will soon find out that lies are cheap the truth will be very expensive.
It all depends who gets to pay for it.
Were these the ‘criminal bikers’ the majority of which have NO criminal records whatsoever?
How exactly does that work?
The attorneys should stop grandstanding, sign the discovery waiver, and get on with the job of providing the best defense for their clients as possible.
Anything less is malpractice in my book.
What need does Reyna have for waivers? Why doesn’t he just comply with the law and release the material as the law tells him to?
What waivers?
Discovery is automatically required under Texas law.
It is illegal to demand waivers.
The defense asks, law enforcement and the prosecution are required to deliver.
Period.
There is no grandstanding on the part of the defense.
Let the court decide whether the waiver is unreasonable.
Anything else is malpractice in my book.
Sorry if this doesn't jibe with your slim grasp of the law.
Might have been the very same ones that were just at TP to discuss ‘motorcycle safety’, ya think?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3363182/posts
Oh my. How could 95% of good citizens have been so wrong to have so badly misjudged these nice people who just mistakenly were meeting at a titty bar to discuss mortorcycle safety?
You are an idiot on the law.
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