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WacoTrib by Tommy Witherspoon 9/10/2019

Judge allows Twin Peaks lawsuit to continue, dismisses McLennan County as defendant

A federal judge dismissed McLennan County as a defendant in a civil rights lawsuit filed by three bikers arrested after the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout but ruled the plaintiffs can pursue claims against the city of Waco and seven individual defendants.

In a 22-page ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright threw out some of the claims filed by bikers Bradley Terwilliger, Benjamin Matcek and Jimmy Dan Smith, as well as dismissing the county and four Waco police officers from the suit.

The lawsuit, filed by the three bikers who were never indicted in the deadly shootout, is one of about 20 pending Twin Peaks civil lawsuits involving about 130 bikers with claims of unlawful arrest and conspiracy.

More: https://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/judge-allows-twin-peaks-lawsuit-to-continue-dismisses-mclennan-county/article_f8ac28f3-8e51-5aba-837c-a6e26c7a81c8.html

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lakewacotriplemurder.blog September 10, 2019 by harrystorm

https://lakewacotriplemurder.blog/2019/09/10/no-justice-for-anyone-twin-peaks/

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NO JUSTICE FOR ANYONE: TWIN PEAKS

Going into the Biker Trials, lawyers for the bikers’d be calling everyone looking for dirt or paper or something on a myriad of Waco’s most prominent office holders, but by the time it was over you could have had an elected official bribing people and a drunken retired Judge wanting to open a dunking booth at a Suicide Prevention Rally and no one would care.

You could have actual film footage of a guy pouring blood onto the parking lot of a Texas restaurant, TWIN PEAKS, with the hospital looming in the background and officers not letting the poor man’s friends take him for help. Yes, he died.

We’ll never know the truth. No one will ever be asked a difficult question, Abel just skates off into the sunset and nine bikers are dead.

Twin Peaks hit Wikipedia just like Branch Davidians and the corruption beat that is Waco just goes on.

More at link.

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https://harleyliberty.com/2019/09/12/there-is-no-justice-a-federal-judge-dismissed-mclennan-county-as-a-defendant-in-a-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-by-three-bikers-arrested-after-the-2015-twin-peaks-shootout/
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Remaining defendants

The various rulings by Albright leave Reyna, the former district attorney, as the sole former county representative remaining in the lawsuit. The order leaves claims pending against Brent Stroman, former Waco police chief; Robert Lanning, assistant chief; Detective Jeffrey Rogers; and police officers Manual Chavez, Patrick Swanton, Austin Evans, Jason Vela, Christopher Nall and John Allovio, and Department of Public Safety agents Steven Schwartz and Christopher Frost.

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What does this mean?  Looks like the County got away with something.
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What does this mean?  Looks like the County got away with something.

@Cyber Liberty

McLennan County get away with something? Nah! I would think they would learn to behave themselves after Mount Carmel. But maybe not.

Waco Biker Massacre Prosecutions Continue to Fall Apart as Last Set of Original Indictments Dismissed

https://reason.com/2019/02/26/waco-biker-massacre-prosecutions-continu

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Nearly four years ago, over 170 people were arrested after a violent altercation outside a meeting of motorcycle club members at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, was swarmed by police, who had already surrounded the meeting before anything untoward occurred. Nine people were killed and 18 wounded in the melee. This week, the last of the initial set of charges was dropped after a special prosecutorial team didn't like what it saw.

From the start, lawyers and others pointed out that it was very unlikely indeed that all the arrested had committed any crimes at all, and that the initial $1 million bond for all of them charged with a blanket crime of "engaging in organized criminal activity" seemed unreasonably punitive. The police strove in the aftermath to keep a detailed account of what actually happened from reaching the public eye, or that of defense attorneys.

Roberts went on to echo the critiques against the Waco prosecution heard by many lawyers and media watchers over the years: Namely, that the bogus arrests hung over so many people's heads for far too long. "I do have a very serious problem as a lawyer with the wholesale charging of people without an investigation….It is just patently offensive to me. Justice is the sword and the shield. You had a number of folks who never should have been charged and whose lives have been turned upside down unnecessarily, and that is something you can't change. You can't take back what has happened over the last four years."

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If the County is dismissed as a defendant, they they pay nothing and will "learn nothing."  It seems the wronged bikers are left with shallow pocketed turnips to recover their costs.
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