WacoTrib by Tommy Witherspoon 8/3/2018
An attorney for the next Twin Peaks shootout defendant scheduled for trial asked a judge Friday to postpone his trial date, set now for Aug. 27.
Judge Ralph Strother of Waco's 19th State District Court, who was perturbed by the 11th-hour request, took the matter under advisement and set another hearing for biker Tom Modesto Mendez for Aug. 13.
---Metzger said Friday that Mendez rejected an offer from prosecutors for a 25-year prison sentence in exchange for his guilty plea to murder or a 30-year term for riot.
Mendez is set to be the second Twin Peaks defendant to stand trial. The first trial, that of Jacob Carrizal, the Bandidos Dallas chapter president, ended in a hung jury and mistrial in November.
In his motion presented to the court Friday, Metzger asked for a trial postponement, among other reasons, because he says the test results of DNA taken from a black sweatshirt Mendez reportedly wore at Twin Peaks and a DNA swab from Mendez have not been given to the defense through the discovery process.---
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