OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ! THE 10TH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS IS NOW IN SESSION. GOD SAVE THE CONSTITUTION AND THE STATE OF TEXAS
Six Shooter Junction – Quite simply, reducing each element of the thing to its simplest proportions, the message laid down by the lawyer and his client is clear.
They care not how it makes anyone look – in court or in the place where the streets have no name and the nightmare is endless, even in the light of day.
Unless they are able to get assurance they will face a prosecutor and staff with a semblance of constitutional principle, they care not how it makes anyone look when they place the elected Criminal District Attorney of McLennan County on the witness stand and expose the fact to a jury of the accused offender’s peers that he lied to the Court and to his constituents when he minimized his role in a decision to charge everyone wearing club colors after a riot involving shooting by cops and bikers on May 17, 2015 with the first degree felony crime of conspiracy to engage in organized criminal activity.
When that event occurs, and it will as sure as God made little green apples, the world will perceive what happened – in stereo and blood-tinged Technicolor – that something akin to a Phoenix Program “pacification” exercise took place at high noon on a Sunday.
I just want to say, as they say in Chicago, that it will be a performance probably repeated in every case brought to jury trial, as they all will be, all 155 of them, because the men and women wearing those colors are resolved to not remove the burden of proof from the State of Texas and admit they did something not only they did not do, but no one did – because it never in fact happened.
Someone murdered – yes; someone shot guns – yes; someone assaulted with a deadly weapon – yes! That much is true, but not everyone present is culpable by reason of a conspiracy to engage in organized criminal activity. They were there to associate with others of their own choosing. That is not illegal. They were wearing clothing of a certain color. Yes. That is equally beyond the scope of the law.
Troops provoked a fight between rival factions, faded away and when those men began to fight with guns and other weapons, troops opened up from an L-shaped ambush to suppress the fighting.
At that point, everyone was taken to a Regional Interrogation Center, as William Colby of the CIA dubbed the dungeons of Vietnam, where they were jailed on an impossibly high bail, and made desperate to pay huge fees to be released, fees they will never regain, no matter what the Constitution says about such a practice of tyranny.
It matters not if they had any part in the violence. Ordering a hamburger or getting off your hawg was enough to turn you into an accused felon with the stroke of a pen signing a stack of identical, non-particular affidavits of probable cause, and the show was on.
Unless the State of Texas moves as requested by a petition of mandamus to remove Reyna and his staff and replace them with pro tempore staff appointed to do the job, a jury of 12 people will hear all about it and they will be charged by the Judge to consider all that in their deliberations – on television, where the whole world is watching.
Hark, hark, hark. The Court of Appeals is now in session and whole world is watching to see if the men who sit on its ornate and hallowed bench will stiffen their spines and strike a blow against tyranny!
And it’s the kind of tyranny that will keep a man or a woman under a huge bond with the threat that on the whim of a suretor underwriting the notion that an accused offender will return to face the Court may possibly choose to go “off bond” and have that person placed back in the dungeon. Therefore, it’s vital that the accused not speak of the matter, engage in any commerce with others so accused, check in with the court coordinator, follow a thousand other pettifogging rules to remind him that he is in no way a free man, but a man living under the conditions of bondage.
It is slavery and it is practiced every day in the halls of American justice. That’s why they call them “bondsmen,” for they engage in bondage.
GOD SAVE THE CONSTITUTION! MAY IT ARISE FROM ITS OWN ASHES IN A RING OF FIRE AND TAKE WINGS TO KILL SNAKES!
I am sincere.
So mote it be.
The Legendary
Jim Parks