Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Never Rat On Your Brothers..
Monday, June 1, 2015
Attorneys battle over litigation waiver rumors
We have a safe bet and we have a reason to believe a lot of paper work at the Waco Sheriff's Office and at the The District Attorneys Office along with emails and other documents e-mail’s are being deleted as we post this. ~Biker Trash Network
A Houston attorney’s media release alleging jailed bikers were being forced to waive their rights to sue the city and county is false, but the controversy it created has that lawyer squaring off with a Waco attorney over the rumors.
Looney’s Sunday media release accused McLennan County officials, including those in the “public defenders office,” of this “scurrilous activity.” McLennan County has no public defenders office. “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,” Looney claimed in his Sunday statement.
But State District Judges Matt Johnson and Ralph Strother, who have approved bond reductions recently for at least 25 of the bikers, say Looney’s assertion is not true. Also, attorneys who have negotiated bond reductions with the district attorney’s office said there was no such provision in the agreements they reached to secure their clients’ releases.
As the judges and fellow attorneys discounted Looney’s statements, he issued another press release Monday, pointing his finger at local attorney Lannen as the source of the waiver rumors. In that second statement, Looney talked of how cooperative and “quite helpful” the judges and DA’s office were in helping secure reduced bonds for his two clients.
“It has been determined the district attorney’s office was not involved in yesterday’s attempt to get defendants to waive their rights of litigation in exchange for bonds,” Looney said. “That entire debacle was orchestrated by McLennan County private attorney Brittany Lannen. Her behavior in this matter is bizarre, unprofessional, unethical and unappreciated by all of the attorneys representing defendants, by the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office and by the McLennan County court staff.”
Looney told the Tribune-Herald he first heard of the supposed waivers after Lannen called him “and tried to get me to go along with her scheme.” “My client had already been approached by other people inside the jail about this waiver,” Looney said. “She said attorneys could get the bikers out quickly, the DA’s office supports the idea — which they didn’t, by the way — and that everyone should say that they were treated fairly.”
Lannen denies the accusations and said she first heard of the waivers from Looney’s media release on Sunday. She called his claims “reprehensible.”
She provided a statement from her Valley Mills firm, DLW Law, which said: “This mythical waiver was brought to our attention by a post from Mr. Looney. No client of DLW Law has signed such a waiver and no such waiver will ever be presented by DLW Law. We are unaware of any other defendants who have signed such a waiver. No one from this office has seen this waiver and has no knowledge as to who drafted it and whether it even exists.”
Looney promised to report Lannen’s behavior to the State Bar of Texas. Susan Criss, a former state district judge from Galveston who represents three of the jailed bikers, said she also plans to file a bar grievance against Lannen for reportedly suggesting the bikers sign a waiver of litigation. “That is just way out of line,” Criss said.
( News Source -WacoTrib | Looney & Conrad Facebook )
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Waco - Bond Reductions
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.
( News Source - LooneyConrad.com | Looney & Conrad Facebook )
An intelligent analysis & commentary
There have been several theories going around about the shooting at Twin Peaks on May 17th, 2015. The main stream news media has relied on so called experts to evaluate what caused this and have grouped anyone riding a motorcycle as gang members (sic) to be feared. The journalist that wrote the following piece dug around and offers another explanation and we have included some excerpts with a link to the main article for review. You make your own conclusions, we have already made our ours. ~Biker Trash Network
Waco "Twin Peaks" Shooting-The Crossfire and The Four Dead Bodies We Don't See...
One of the more frustrating aspects to the Waco “Twin Peaks” biker shooting story is the lack of photographic references to aid in a full understanding of the proximity of all the characters, suspects and witnesses involved.
However, after reviewing hundreds of media articles showing bits and pieces of the event we finally have some optical references for a story as it is told. But before going to that aspect another controversial point should be expressed.
No-one here is saying the police, in totality, did anything wrong. Conversely, it would be unfair to think EVERYONE, who were rounded up as 170 ‘conspiracy suspects’ and who were detained in the aftermath, is guilty of murder.
There are many concerning aspects which need sunlight regarding the immediate police response to whatever caused the spark of violence. Similarly, there are concerning aspects about the wholesale arrest of ‘bikers’, or unaffiliated motorcycle riders, purely due to their proximity to a violent event they did not participate in.
Hopefully, anyone vested in the interests of lawful due process (ie. everyone) would be concerned with ‘wholesale roundups’.
( News Source - The Conservative Tree House )
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