WacoTrib by Kristin Hoppa 6/20/2018
Defense attorneys Casie Gotro and Clint Broden will receive top honors Thursday from the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for their role in challenging the mass prosecution of bikers in the 2015 shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.
Gotro and Broden will be named as the association’s Percy Foreman Lawyers of the Year at a banquet Thursday in San Antonio.
Casie Gotro, of Houston, defended Jacob Carrizal last fall in the first and only Twin Peaks case that has gone to trial. The five-week trial of Carrizal, president of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos, ended in a mistrial. He was later re-indicted on a first-degree riot charge, which has a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.
Throughout the Carrizal trial, Gotro repeatedly cited instances in which DA’s office withheld evidence throughout the trial, which ended with a deadlocked jury.
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