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As recently as this morning it seemed impossible, but the Twin Peaks legal fiasco got even more ridiculous this afternoon.
McLennan County, Texas District Attorney
Abelino Reyna, who is gratuitously prosecuting 192 people who were at
the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco on May 17, 2015, filed a ridiculous
“disclosure” in the 19th Judicial District today, “in the spirit of
Brady, the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 39.14 (the Michael Morton
Act), our ethical obligations under Texas Disciplinary Rules of
Professional Conduct, and our duty to ‘see that justice is done.’ The
document is titled “State’s Disclosure of the Existence of Federal
Evidence Not in its Possession or Control.”
Disclose This
The disclosure begins: “On March 28,
2017, the McLennan County Criminal District Attorney’s Office received a
letter from the United States Attorney for the Western District of
Texas, Richard L. Durbin, Jr. This letter provides the broad outlines of
an investigation into the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Club, United
States v. John Portillo, et al., Cause No. SA-15-CR-820 (see attached).
In the letter, Mr. Durbin declines to share any information or evidence
relating to that investigation at this time. Mr. Durbin has indicated
that the information will be disclosed to the McLennan County Criminal
District Attorney’s Office once the trial is complete.
“Although no specific disclosures were
made, Mr. Durbin acknowledges that the federal investigation has
information which relates to the events at Twin Peaks in Waco, Texas on
May 17, 2015. Although the federal investigation was underway when that
incident occurred, neither the fact of the investigation nor any
information pertaining to the investigation were shared with this
office.”
The “disclosure” continues:
“Despite repeated efforts to obtain this
information, our office has no specific knowledge of the contents of
the federal investigation. The information is subject to a protective
order and not in our control, preventing our actual or imputed knowledge
of the specific information. Tex. Rules Prof. Conduct 3.09; Rubalcado
v. State, 424 S.W.3d 460 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014). The federal
investigation has been ndependent of this prosecution, and no
collaboration between the offices has occurred. This information may be
exculpatory, mitigating, or impeachment evidence as contemplated by
Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963).”
Tarradiddle
Reyna has been lip synching the same
song for more than a year and a half. The disclosure is tarradiddle. The
Waco bloodbath was the result of a federal investigation into the
Bandidos Motorcycle Club. That was where Patrick Swanton got his
“intelligence.” And anybody who has ever looked at multiple federal
investigations of motorcycle clubs knows they all employ the same game
plan. Federal investigators or deputies drawn from state and local
police forces infiltrate and try to ingratiate themselves to the target
club. The infiltrators act as agents provocateur, buying guns
and drugs at well above market price, asking to store cigarettes in a
club brother’s garage, offering large sums to out-of-work men for a few
hours of “security” and encouraging violence.
Waco has always been reminiscent of the
murder of a Mongol named Manual Vincent “Hitman” Martin on the Glendale
Freeway in the middle of the night in 2008. Undercover agents with the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had foreknowledge –
if they did not kill him themselves – that Martin was going to be
murdered. The undercover agents, whose names were Gregory Giaoni, Paul
D’Angelo and Darrin Kozlowski, not only allowed the murder to occur but
they incited it by picking on the wrong, bad dude in a bar. The next day
Kozlowski used the murder as an opportunity to try to incite Mongols
leaders to go to war. Something like that self-evidently happened at the
Twin Peaks.
What’s Really Just Happened
Reyna has just plausibly denied that he
ever knew anything about the federal Bandidos investigation, or its
connection to the Twin Peaks. He did not arrest 177 people on the spot
because he wanted to shut up all the witnesses to the brawl until the
migrating press moved on. He arrested them all because it was his
“duty.” Now he and his duty are hiding behind the federal case. And why,
exactly 14 months after the Bandidos indictment was unsealed, should
anything about the investigation that preceded it remain secret?
But what happened today is not merely
about Reyna covering himself. Today’s “disclosure” was strategic.
Reyna’s proclamation that there is evidence that might prove the people
he has been persecuting for the last two years are innocent is almost as
offensive as his statement that he made today’s filing because he is
duty bound to “see that justice is done.” Everything Reyna says sticks
to your boots and stinks.
What Reyna has been doing for the last
two years – beside stalling – is trying to find a case he can win, with a
poisoned jury, in Waco. Earlier this month there were five, scheduled
Twin Peaks trials. Who Reyna really wanted to try, according to multiple
sources, was a Bandido named Jake Carrizal. Reyna thought he could get a
Waco jury to believe that Carrizal started the whole mess by running
over a Cossack prospect’s foot. That did not happen but the accusations
against the 192 defendants in the case have never had anything to do
with consensual reality. It is at least possible that Reyna would have
tried to convince a jury of his homeboys that Carrizal, not the Texas
Rangers, erected the polecam just outside the Twin Peaks patio where the
fight started. The way these things usually go, Reyna would have
accused Carrizal of putting up the polecam because he wanted a “trophy
video.”
But that’s not going to happen now.
Carrizal’s trial was continued last Friday and it will be continued
again because Reyna just learned yesterday that the feds might be
holding evidence pertinent to all the Twin Peaks cases. Just yesterday.
Just Yesterday
So it is now Reyna’s “duty” to make sure
nobody goes to trial until all the evidence can be disclosed. And that
can’t happen until after the trials of former Bandidos President Jeff
Pike and former Bandidos Vice-President John Portillo, and four more
defendants who were just appended to the Bandidos indictment, are
complete.
There have been three indictments in the
Bandidos RICO case so far. Who can guess how many superseding
indictments there will be this year? Next year? The year after that? And
all of them so secret that no one who is a mere citizen is allowed to
know anything more about the Bandidos case than the accusations.
Undoubtedly, some defense attorneys in
the Waco case will want to take their clients to trial before the
federal case finds its putative conclusion. But Reyna, and the feds,
will never allow that to happen. Reyna has his “duty” you know.
