Bond Reductions Offered only in Exchange for Waiving Potential Lawsuits in Waco Shootout
May 31, 2015
Waco, Texas – Earlier today, detainees in the Jack Harwell Detention Center in Waco were told that in exchange for bond reductions, they must sign a document stating the Waco police “had the right to arrest the inmate and that he/she will not file a lawsuit against McLennan County and/or the City of Waco.”
On the two-week anniversary of the “shootout at high noon” at the Twin
Peaks restaurant between motorcyclists and law enforcement officers, at
least 170 people remain detained on $1 million bonds.
This latest information was reported to an attorney representing at
least one of the detainees. “It appears the public defenders office in
McLennan County is involved in this scurrilous activity,” said Paul
Looney, a Houston attorney with Looney & Conrad, P.C. “I’ve never
seen anything like the lawlessness that the authorities have perpetrated
on these people and now to add insult to injury they are trying to
cover their own tracks in exchange for bond. I will be in the reception
area of the McLennan County D.A.’s office tomorrow morning at 8:30 with
the intention of not leaving until we have the issue of bond
resolved.”
“They know these people aren’t dangerous or they wouldn’t be offering
the bond reductions and they know the police and the D.A.’s office have
violated the law and now they are trying to hold people hostage until
they agree to waive their rights. It’s unconscionable,” said Clay S.
Conrad, Looney’s law partner.
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