Posted on 02/11/2018 6:28:28 AM PST by Elderberry
With McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna desperately dumping Twin Peaks biker cases right and left in recent days, the astonished taxpayer must demand honesty of himself if not of Reyna: Does anyone really believe Reyna has suddenly been struck by an epiphany that has stubbornly eluded him in the three years since the May 17, 2015, biker shootout that left nine dead and 20 wounded?
-this epiphany has to do with political odds, not any interest in justice.
And it must have been some epiphany. Reyna is credited with hijacking a Waco police murder investigation in 2015 and throwing 177 bikers in jail on dubious organized-crime charges and million-dollar bonds, then pressing for 155 indictments. As other county officials’ fears have mounted about potentially costly lawsuits over trampled civil rights and a half-million dollars in security for just the first Twin Peaks trial — a mistrial — Reyna didn’t budge in his supposedly tough DA convictions.
Now he draws political opponents from all corners, including a fellow Republican who doesn’t balk at insisting what too many others hesitated to say: Whether from political aspirations, incompetence or both, Reyna has bungled the Twin Peaks cases from the very start. In past weeks he has quite obviously sought to block disqualification hearings and squelch damning testimony by former prosecutors and law enforcement officials about what they say are politically driven acts by Reyna such as quashing unrelated prosecution cases for campaign donors and friends and ties to illegal gambling.
As of last week, Reyna would have us believe he has suddenly seen the need for prosecutorial discretion in going after more culpable Twin Peaks culprits — as Waco police were trying to do before he interfered in 2015. The truth: He’s cutting his losses ahead of a contested Primary election
(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...
Headshake.
More of the same. Insanity.
I haven’t delved into the facts, so I ask whether this has happened because bikers are not PC. Did the DA have any evidence at all against the bikers?
As a Texan I will work to prevent the State of Texas paying $1 towards this mess. The area around Waco needs to learn, they keep doing this and must stop electing those who break the law. If the settlements come out of the local pocket great, it will be a learning lesson.
In my opinion, there is an element of federal involvement with it’s own agenda ultimately behind this. That needs to be exposed as much as the abuse by Waco court system and the DA.
177 were arrested, with identical charges of Conspiracy ++.
All were assigned a bail amount of 1 million dollars.
For starters, that is where the insanity began.
The shooters? Are all dead.
I don’t believe there will be a single case of conviction of murder or attempted murder.
This is a travesty to the US court system.
It has destroyed many lives and this will cost the taxpayers.
Wac(k)o has a long history of nuttiness like this. Unfortunately.
In before....
Particularly the guy that was charged with conspiring to shoot himself.
This editorial sums it up nicely.
McLennan County, where the taxpayers pay through their bleeding noses for one man’s version of PC justice. Orchestrated by a District Attorney dreamily painting what he was certain would be a stunning example of law and order, vanquishing the Subhuman reprobate scum clothed in leather and colors, unwelcome in the sensible idyllic community in which he was born and raised.
His champions bluster and cheer him on, while the sensible citizens of the fair community wonder what the painting will cost them in the end. The light and gay colors of the beginning of the painting are being covered by the dark shades of bias and overreach.
And the band played on . . .
In before the “Justice For Reyna” duo.
Feds, State, local, lot of blame to go around. But the sheriff’s the highest law enforcer of the county and should be responsible.
As a Texan too, I agree with you. But Abbott is a BIG TIME uber religious man and Waco is the very left ventricle of religion in Texas. I think Baptist being the largest.
So, I don’t look for Abbott to agree with you and me. “Politics” in Texas is King and Money is Queen and Waco has some stroke in Austin!
Let me be clear. I support Abbott 95%.
Our judicial system, like pretty much every other system of government, is so corrupted, that it seems like it’s time to just start over.
From judges legislating from the bench, all the way up to and including the Supreme Court.
Judges granting themselves, judicial immunity, something that doesn’t exist.
Corrupt DAs and lawyers.
Lawyers that do the least amount of work for the most money and when they find out that money is tight they stop working on a case.
And, when you realize that someone like, Swalwell, can get into law school, take the Bar exam, pass the Bar exam and then become a sitting member of the House of Representatives. Something is really wrong in the world.
“McLennan County, where ....”
.... two hundred murdering gangsters started a gunfight in a family plaza on a Sunday afternoon.
Fearless forecast: This is so FUBAR that NO biker will be convicted of anything that will stick.
Ack, I was too late.
. . . Including 20 that weren’t even there!
It’s a bit early for that much hyperbole, isn’t it?
;D
Lookouts?
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