Waco Day 844: Noon Pacific

The Aging Rebel ^ | 9/6/2017

[Elderberry]

So now, after stalling, twisting and strangling justice for 844 days and snickering about it, the scalawags who run Texas’ Third Administrative Judicial Region appear to have decided that this Casie Gotro person is begging to be put in her place.

Gotro, as many or most or all of the McLennan County jury pool already knows, is not from Waco. She is from Houston which the Lord God recently washed for its wickedness. Somehow Gotro survived His wrath. And not only is she not from Waco. She is the impudent malapert who is attempting to clear the reputation of known Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gangster Jake Carrizal after, as is well known, he ordered all his gangster associates to murder nine people and maim 20 more in plain sight of a pole camera and very many surveillance cameras, dash cams, lapel cams, video capable smart phones and a couple of squads of Texas Rangers dressed up like Delta Force. On a Sunday!

All that just happened to be there. McLennan County prosecutors have cogently argued that only some of it deserves to be believed.

Pre-Lynching Scheduled

Carrizal’s pre-lynching is scheduled to begin next Tuesday. Gotro is trying to screw that up. She has been whining and complaining for months about the judge who will preside over the pre-lynching. He is an honest and honorable man named Ralph Strother. He is a fine and successful Texas politician who sees the young Tom Cruise when he looks in the mirror except on those occasions when he sees Jesus. He is a local. He is a good old boy from who went to Baylor, frequently refers to his victims as “you all” and who ran unopposed the last election. He is now finishing up his long and distinguished career.

Gotro – which may not even be an American name – had the audacity last Friday to file a recusal motion. It had something to do with the Honorable Judge Strother not forcing the people’s prosecutors to turn over evidence that would just becloud an open and shut case; and him not reading her motions; and him not liking to have somebody write down his words when he makes decisions and when he explains his legal reasoning with “Because I can.” The Honorable Judge Strother is a can do, take charge individual. So Gotro wants him fired. He is not going to quit. He is not a quitter. He started this lynching and he aims to finish it.

Timely Rulings

Gotro filed her recusal motion last Friday and there are a couple of things about recusal motions. First off, any law professor will tell you they are a waste of a piece of paper. And, if they are going to work they usually take months.

Of course there are always exceptions. Three other smart-ass lawyers filed recusal motions against the Honorable Judge Strother back in June. The motions were referred to Third Administrative Judicial Region Presiding Justice Billy Ray Stubblefield. In due course, because everybody in Texas has known for six months that this Carrizal gangster is supposed to be lynched first so there was no hurry, Justice Stubblefield assigned the matter to Judge James Morgan.

Then lightning struck. Possibly Morgan got drunk and had a fight with his wife and got bit by one of his dogs. He actually kicked the Honorable Judge Strother off the the three cases just last week. Maybe somebody slipped him one of those funny cigarettes. Sometimes crazy things just happen, like when that statue of Lady Justice on top of the McLennan County courthouse got damaged and they had to take it down and now they still haven’t put up the big, bronze, roulette wheel the district attorney ordered to replace the first statue.

Let’s Meet Dan

Gotro intentionally threw a monkey wrench into the whole lynching when she filed that recusal motion. Like the last time, this recusal motion was referred to the Honorable Justice Stubblefield. This time he was more on top of things. People have been looking forward to this pre-lynching. Reporters and other cynics might be disappointed if this pre-lynching doesn’t start on time. Why, right now in Los Angeles there are probably reporters thinking, “Wow. Who needs the surf break at 26th Street in Manhattan Beach? Wow! Waco in September. What could be better? Amarillo in August?”

Just yesterday afternoon, the Honorable Justice Stubblefield appointed the Honorable Dan Mills, a former judge from 2005 to 2009 in the 424th District court for Blanco, Texas, which is a jurisdiction that was created in 2005. Mills is a fine judge and a good looking, patriotic man as you can see from his photograph up at the top of this page. He spent 19 years, twice as long as he served as a judge, as a federal prosecutor in the Western District of Texas where he concentrated on cases involving bank fraud, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud and public corruption.

Don’t worry about those public corruption prosecutions. Mills was available for his current important duty only because he lost an election in 2014 to the Honorable Evan Stubbs who accused the Honorable Judge Mills of “voter fraud, bank fraud and falsifying governmental records.”

Judge Mills immediately scheduled a hearing on Judge Strother’s recusal for tomorrow. The hearing can legally proceed only if Gotro agrees to it. Texas law requires that all the parties to the motion hearing be given at least 72 hours notice.

That is what happened in the Waco, Texas Twin Peaks restaurant Biker Brawl case today. So far. Maybe there will be a pre-lyncing starting next Tuesday after all.

[TexasGator]

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