Supreme Court declines to consider former McLennan County DA’s appeal of decision to reinstate lawsu

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KWTX by Tommy Witherspoon 11/14/2022

Supreme Court declines to consider former McLennan County DA’s appeal of decision to reinstate lawsuits filed by bikers in Twin Peaks shootout



WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider an appeal by the city of Waco and McLennan County in lawsuits filed by bikers arrested in the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout that left nine bikers dead and 20 injured.

The nation’s highest court denied without comment a request from the remaining defendants in the federal lawsuits, including the city of Waco, McLennan County, former District Attorney Abel Reyna and former Waco police officers Manuel Chavez and Jeff Rogers.

Attorneys for the defendants asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an April decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that reinstated the lawsuits of about 90 bikers whose civil rights cases were dismissed last year by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of Waco.

The federal appeals court panel reversed an Albright ruling that held a grand jury’s indictment of the 90 bikers “served to break the chain of causation” for their false arrest claims and sent the cases back to Albright for further action in the wake of the court’s ruling.

Dallas attorney Don Tittle, who represents most of the bikers, said he was not surprised by the Supreme Court’s decision not to consider the appeals.

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