WacoTrib by TOMMY WITHERSPOON 1/5/2018
A second Twin Peaks defendant appears headed to trial later this month after he rejected an offer from the McLennan County District Attorney's Office to dismiss the first-degree felony charge against him in exchange for his guilty plea to misdemeanor assault and one year on deferred probation.
"I didn't do anything," George Bergman said Friday. "That would be the first lie I told, saying I did something when I didn't do anything. I am not willing to take anything because I didn't do anything. I came to Waco for a meeting."
Bergman, 50, a truck driver from Wills Point, is a former member of the Desgraciados motorcycle group and is among 154 bikers indicted in the May 17, 2015, shootout in Waco that left nine dead and 20 injured.
He said he knows that by turning down a year on deferred misdemeanor probation, he is risking a potential life prison term if convicted of engaging in organized criminal activity.
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