Showing posts with label Twin Peaks massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twin Peaks massacre. Show all posts
Saturday, September 01, 2018

Twin-Peaks prosecutions will wait for next McLennan DA

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Even a local, elected judge in McLennan County is now openly questioning lame-duck District Attorney Abel Reyna's judgment. The Waco ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Reasonably Suspicious: The conservative case for reducing drug penalties, DWI arrests plummet, and other stories

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Does God have a Texas accent? Mandy Marzullo and I address this and other pressing questions on the latest edition (May 2018) of Just Libert...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

Reasonably Suspicious Podcast: Why Mein Kampf is okay but The Color Purple is banned at TDCJ

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Check out the January edition of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, covering Texas criminal justice policy and politics. You ...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Pot proposals, waiting on bail reform, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends which merit Grits readers attention: Juvenile justice agenda detailed Following up on the Texas Appleseed/Te...
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Sunday, December 04, 2016

First Waco biker case headed to trial in January

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The absurdist mockery of justice going on surrounding the Twin Peaks biker cases - in which  154 bikers were indicted on first-degree felo...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Civil suit may force Reyna recusal on Twin Peaks, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends which merit Grits readers' attention: A proposed resolution this Thursday at the Austin City Council di...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

Bikers organizing around Twin Peaks cluster#@*! in Waco

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Bikers are organizing to protest the kangaroo court spectacle in Waco in the aftermath of last year's  Twin Peaks biker shootout. If y...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Latest McLennan DA screwup par for Waco biker case

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Even in a large-scale episode like the Waco biker shootout in May, one would think authorities ought to be able to count the number of dead....
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Monday, October 05, 2015

Most Twin Peaks bikers off ankle monitors, few if any prosecutions likely

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None of the 177 Twin Peaks bikers remain incarcerated in the county jail, even though all of them initially were assigned a $1 million bond,...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Silence on Twin Peaks massacre may 'blacken' reputation of Waco justice

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Since the Twin Peaks massacre in May, officials in Waco have mostly succeeded in keeping biker-related criminal cases out of the press. But ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Kangaroo court in Waco: No reason needed to arrest packing pastor with CCL

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Gun ownership is on trial in Waco, so why aren't the NRA and all the open-carry advocates going nuts over what's happening regarding...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Why won't authorities say how many in Twin Peaks massacre were shot by cops?

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Let's not mince words: It's absurd and disingenuous that authorities in Waco haven't yet released results from ballistics report...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Veteran Waco cop 'randomly' chosen foreman of Twin Peaks grand jury

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In Waco, District Judge Ralph Strother selected "longtime Waco police officer James Head" to serve as foreman of the grand jury p...
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Monday, July 06, 2015

Rigged game in Waco

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One of the few bright spots coming out of the Twin Peaks massacre in Waco is that Tommy Witherspoon of the Waco Tribune Herald, one of the t...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

On bail, plea bargains and innocence

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Proponents of bail abolition this week found succor in several high-profile national media investigations into the topic, starting on Sunday...
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