Twin Peaks cases unravel as 3rd anniversary arrives

[Sanguine]

    By TOMMY WITHERSPOON • twitherspoon@wacotrib.com May 16, 2018 Updated 17 hrs ago (4)

By the evening of May 17, 2015, the bodies of nine dead bikers had been cleared from the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant, and the Waco Police Department was working America’s deadliest episode of biker violence as a murder case.

Police worked overtime at the crime scene processing evidence and collecting guns, knives, brass knuckles and a tomahawk, some of the weapons stashed in toilets, flower beds and restaurant kitchen cabinets.

Across town at the Waco Convention Center that Sunday evening, more police were taking photos and fingerprints from bikers who had been bused from the restaurant with their wrists bound in plastic ties....

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/twin-peaks-cases-unravel-as-rd-anniversary-arrives/article_40b236fa-055f-54fa-a1ac-e7a83591259c.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Newsletter%20Master%20List&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines

[Elderberry]

Police Documents Of Bogus Murder Charge
May 17, 2018 Radiolegendary

http://radiolegendary.com/2018/05/police-documents-of-bogus-murder-charge/

Point Blank, Texas – A bevy of documents obtained through order of the Attorney General has prompted a serious legal challenge to murder indictments against three men arrested at Twin Peaks on May 17, 2015.

“Prosecutors have charged Walker in the death of Richard Kirschner, a Cossack. But police records previously reviewed by the AP show a Waco SWAT officer, Michael Bucher, shot Kirschner twice with his rifle. An autopsy report says there were three gunshot wounds. Walker’s pistol was later recovered from a pile of weapons police reports and dashcam footage shows were tossed into the back of Bucher’s vehicle by officers. The ATF wasn’t able to positively identify any fingerprints on Walker’s pistol.” – Ms. Schmall’s lead

[Elderberry]

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-05-17/cases-against-bikers-flounder-3-years-after-waco-shootout

By EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press

WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas prosecutors who have failed to convict a single person in the three years since a Waco shooting left nine bikers dead are trying a new tack of targeting fewer cases, but attorneys for the bikers say the evidence is so shaky and the lead prosecutor's credibility so damaged that it will be difficult to make the remaining charges stick.

A problem for the prosecution is that McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna is a lame duck, having lost a Republican primary race in March after being accused of mishandling the biker cases. A new prosecutor won't be elected until November. Instead of resigning or keeping a low profile until then, Reyna has moved more aggressively.

"One would have thought that repudiation in the March primary would have resonated," said Clinton Broden, an attorney for one of the bikers still being prosecuted. "Instead, Reyna appears intent on being the last player at the blackjack table at 3 in the morning who keeps doubling down until he is out of chips."

Reyna declined an interview request from The Associated Press.

[Bigun]

Abel Rena is his father's son for sure!  And just as corrupt!