DUELING WORD PROCESSORS AT THE READY, TURN, FIRE…
Waco – Defense counsel for Twin Peaks defendants will face off with tres hombres from the DA’s office at high noon Tuesday.
Criminal Defense Attorney Abigail Anastasio will file a motion to disqualify DA Abel Reyna, First Assistant DA Michael Jarrett, and Mark Parker for undisclosed reasons.
According to Roxanne Avery, a legal assistant for Paul Looney, Ms. Anastasio will hand out copies of the motion to the press and broadcast representatives at 11:45 a.m. on the steep Steps that lead to an unused door on an upper floor of the building.
Questions will be taken.
Mr. Looney hinted at a reason for such a motion in a speech he delivered on Saturday in the same location to bikers gathered to commemorate the one-year anniversary of an attack by Waco Police and DPS agents wielding assault rifles that left 9 dead, 20 wounded, and saw the arrest of 177 for the vague conspiratorial offense of engaging in organized criminal activity, a first degree felony that carries a penalty of from 5 years to life.
According to Looney, Jarrett wrote the affidavits of warrantless arrest that Waco Detective Chavez signed after he arrived from a remote location.
It is his allegation that Chavez had no personal knowledge of events that had taken place at Twin Peaks Restaurant prior to his arrival.
In the affidavit, an aggravating factor is noted, that the alleged criminal conspiracy by a “combination” of actors led to the Capital Murder and/or aggravated assault of the dead and wounded.
“Jarrett wrote it and he signed it,” Looney told the gathering of bikers.
Ms. Anastasio is representing Ray Nelson. She is one of 20 lawyers recruited by Looney and Ms. Avery to represent defendants who could not afford a lawyer and had to settle for a court-appointed attorney. According to Looney, all have agreed to serve for what they would make in a day’s fees, “if not pro bono.”