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Title: Twin Peaks bikers' attorney seeks 'special master' to oversee property return
Post by: Elderberry on June 05, 2019, 10:57:55 pm

WacoTrib by Tommy Witherspoon 6/5/2019

An attorney for six bikers arrested after the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout in Waco is asking a judge to appoint a “special master” to oversee the return of items seized from almost 200 bikers who went to jail.

Houston attorney Paul Looney filed a civil petition Wednesday morning in Waco’s 414th State District Court asking Judge Vicki Menard to appoint someone to help “make order out of all this chaos,” as Looney put it.

Looney, representing Ray Nelson, Phillip Ray White, Cody Ledbetter, Marcus Ryan Pilkington, William English and Morgan English, said he is trying to help them and others get items returned to them that were seized by police and prosecutors after the shootout that left nine dead and 20 injured.

Items being sought include “wallets, cellular phones, vehicles, clothing, identification and other papers, firearms, knives, tools, chains, belt buckles, shoes, boots and money,” according to Looney’s petition.

“There is no reason any of this property should not be returned without delay,” Looney said. “In fact, there is good cause to appoint a special master due to the volume of individual items of property involved, believed to be over 1,000 individual items.”

More: https://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/twin-peaks-bikers-attorney-seeks-special-master-to-oversee-property/article_5e9bbf5b-2fc6-5362-b41f-520ee5a5f8ea.html (https://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/twin-peaks-bikers-attorney-seeks-special-master-to-oversee-property/article_5e9bbf5b-2fc6-5362-b41f-520ee5a5f8ea.html)

Title: Re: Twin Peaks bikers' attorney seeks 'special master' to oversee property return
Post by: Sanguine on June 05, 2019, 11:02:10 pm

They're till hanging on to all their stuff?  Wow.

Title: Re: Twin Peaks bikers' attorney seeks 'special master' to oversee property return
Post by: Elderberry on June 06, 2019, 01:06:09 am

https://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/supreme-court-case-legislation-take-aim-at-shady-asset-forfeiture/article_9541f708-5645-56de-b3af-417a07f1b4e4.html (https://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/supreme-court-case-legislation-take-aim-at-shady-asset-forfeiture/article_9541f708-5645-56de-b3af-417a07f1b4e4.html)

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After the 2015 biker shootout at Twin Peaks in Waco, Reyna orchestrated the arrests of about 200 bikers, sought indictments against 155 of them and filed civil forfeiture proceedings against 16 motorcycles, eight pickups and two SUVs.