People who don’t know how the justice casino really works just assume the sordid process of criminal accusation is simply followed by conviction or exoneration in some reasonable time – like say the lifetime of a gerbil. It doesn’t work that way for multiple reasons. The most obvious are that all the games in the […]
July 29, 2016
This page would probably just ignore George Christie’s soulless money grubbing and prattle if he would just stop blaming this page for it. Even Christie’s enemies think talking about him enriches and validates the shameless son of a bitch. But he keeps blaming this page for who he is, so in the fewest possible words […]
July 27, 2016
It is nearing the peak of overtime season for police in the northern hemisphere thanks to the world’s one percenter motorcycle clubs. The last couple of weeks, law enforcement’s biggest benefactor has been the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Last week members held a big national run in Ottawa, Canada. This week the club is partying […]
July 26, 2016
It is impossible not to compare the cold case arrest and treatment of a black man from Ohio named Leon “Stash” Dudley to the treatment in the cold case arrest of a white biker named Ronald Stahlman seven and a half years ago. And a comparison of the two cases illustrates the capriciousness of American […]
July 25, 2016
A cinematic cold case dripping nuance and irony has been unfolding in Houston and in Ohio for a month. Long ago in the golden age of disco, on November 3, 1979, at 2:30 in the morning in the parking lot of a then famous nightclub near the Astrodome called the Dome Shadows, a couple of […]
July 20, 2016
Abelino Reyna, the McLennan County District Attorney told Texas Lawyer Staff reporter Miriam Rozen yesterday that he is “flattered” by court filings that liken him to a pathetic gambler. Two motions filed Monday by Dallas lawyer Clint Broden on behalf of Matthew Clendennen and Burton George Bergman – both defendants in the bizarre and tragic […]
July 19, 2016
Dallas attorney Clint Broden continues to carve up McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna like a shark carving up a whale. Yesterday, Broden filed a motion on behalf of two of his clients, Matthew Clendennen and Burton George Bergman, to recuse the McClennan County District Attorneys Office from any further involvement in the Twin Peaks […]
July 18, 2016
There is a whiff of civil war in the air. Just like the last time, many innocents are eager to volunteer. The lead recruiter yesterday was Chris Cox, a 47-year-old chainsaw artist and the founder and spokesman for an idea whose time has apparently come called “Bikers For Trump.” The Republican national Convention starts today […]
July 15, 2016
Calling the evidence against three Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club members accused of murder a “jigsaw puzzle,” Multnomah County Circuit Judge Gregory Silver yesterday denied club members Mark Leroy Dencklau, Earl Devearl Fisher and Tiler Evan Pribbernow bail. Silver said that “no single piece of evidence that was determinative” in his decision, Each of the three […]
July 14, 2016
The local press is having a field day with a sensational murder case involving members of the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club in Portland, Oregon. Former club member Robert Lee “Bagger Bobby” Huggins’ bloodied and broken body was discovered by loggers in Ridgefield, Oregon on July 1, 2015. His skull, leg and one rib were broken; […]
July 13, 2016
The Mongols Nation Case lurched back to life Monday. In a gasping, mendacious, 44-page appeal Eileen M. Decker, the United States Attorney for the Central District of California – which is to say the federal district with jurisdiction over 22 million American citizens and some great number of alien residents in Southern and Central California […]
July 12, 2016
Every year or so, the Commanding General of Camp Pendleton in San Diego County issues a general order that lists “outlaw motorcycle gangs” the command staff believes pose “a criminal and security threat; inhibits the mission” of the base; “interfere with the loyalty, morale, good order, and discipline of” Camp Pendleton; “and discredit the reputation […]
July 12, 2016
Now that your ears have finally stopped ringing from that unfortunate episode with that claymore that time at Landing Zone Hard Times in the Happy Valley, your Vietnam experiences may finally be starting to pay off. Rachael Heaton-Armstrong, a senior producer with the British production company Pilot Guides is looking for Vietnam Veterans who live […]
July 29, 2016
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