DA to dismiss Twin Peaks case, recuse office from another to avoid disqualification hearing

[Elderberry]

Waco Trib 2/7/2018 by Tommy Witherspoon

On the eve of a hearing at which two Twin Peaks shootout bikers were seeking to disqualify McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna from prosecuting their cases, Reyna instead decided to dismiss one of those cases and recuse his office in the other.

Additionally, Reyna's office has notified 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother that it intends to dismiss engaging in organized criminal activity charges against five other bikers arrested after the May 2015 shootout at Twin Peaks.

Strother said Wednesday evening he will grant the motions to dismiss the charges and recuse the DA's office on Thursday morning.

Reyna did not return phone calls Wednesday.

Strother had scheduled a hearing for Thursday afternoon at which Fort Worth attorneys Brian Bouffard and David Conrad Beyer, who represent bikers Jorge Salinas and Billy McCree, both Cossacks, intended to seek to disqualify Reyna from prosecuting the cases on a variety of grounds.

That hearing, like a similar one set for Jan. 22, will be canceled. Prosecutors from Reyna's office asked Strother to postpone the Jan. 22 hearing. When Strother declined to put the hearing off, Reyna's first assistant, Michael Jarrett, countered with a motion from Reyna to recuse Strother from the two cases.

More: http://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/da-to-dismiss-twin-peaks-case-recuse-office-from-another/article_6f0c436f-a943-5879-b3da-c475fdb67fc3.html

[Sanguine]

Thanks, Elderberry!

[Elderberry]

Marine – DA Reyna ‘Enemy’ Of The U.S. Constitution

Waco – To keep from having to testify in a hearing as a witness in cases he sought by indictment as a complaining witness, Abel Reyna  dismissed one case and recused himself in another.

The symbolism of the moment came to light when Dallas attorney F. Clinton Broden stepped up to the microphones and explained the irony of the situation.

The climactic moment of the affair came when Brian Bouffard, the attorney for a Marine who did two combat tours in Afghanistan before his arrest at Twin Peaks, explained that he took the same oath as a Navy legal officer as his client – to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution ‘against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

When the question period came, Salinas when asked if he considers the DA an enemy of the Constitution, say, simply, “Yes.”

That was the flavor of the unusual occurrence.

We bring you the entire news conference, unedited, beginning to end. It is an interesting experience, to say the least.

http://radiolegendary.com/2018/02/marine-da-reyna-enemy-of-the-u-s-constitution/

[Bigun]

Apparently the apple didn't fall far from the tree in Abel Reyna's case.  His dad was a real piece of work himself!