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Looney filed a motion to disqualify McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna in October after it was discovered that the DA's office released videos from Ledbetter's cellphone that showed Ledbetter and his wife having sex. The videos were sent to more than 125 attorneys as part of the massive Twin Peaks discovery process.

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Didn't Reyna stand for re-election? And what were the results?

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Johnson, 61, who practiced personal injury law in Dallas for 30 years before moving back to McLennan County last year, got 10,347 votes for 59.9 percent of the vote to Reyna's 6,930 for 40.1 percent.

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Johnson, 61, who practiced personal injury law in Dallas for 30 years before moving back to McLennan County last year, got 10,347 votes for 59.9 percent of the vote to Reyna's 6,930 for 40.1 percent.

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Good Lord. Reyna sounds completely unqualified

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Looney filed a motion to disqualify McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna in October after it was discovered that the DA's office released videos from Ledbetter's cellphone that showed Ledbetter and his wife having sex. The videos were sent to more than 125 attorneys as part of the massive Twin Peaks discovery process.

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"Regrettably, in an effort to protect various parties from civil liability, the state's motion includes self-serving language claiming that it believed probable cause existed for this prosecution in the first place," Broden said. "In fact, Mr. Bergman is absolutely innocent of the charges and the state knows it. Had he not been innocent the state never would have offered him a misdemeanor plea for an offense that originally carried a sentence of life imprisonment.

"So, while the state cannot bring itself to admit it for reasons related to its civil liability, the state knows Mr. Bergman is innocent and is really not fooling anybody. Indeed, video evidence that has been available to the state for more than two years establishes that Mr. Bergman just arrived at Twin Peaks when the shooting started and that he immediately ran and took cover in the Don Carlos parking lot," he said.

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Special prosecutors seek dismissal of Clendennen Twin Peaks case

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A special prosecutor is seeking to dismiss all charges against Matthew Clendennen in the Twin Peaks shootout, saying there was no evidence that the Hewitt biker played a role in the 2015 incident

Special prosecutor Brian M. Roberts filed a motion Friday to dismiss the first-degree felony charges against Clendennen,

Roberts is among four special prosecutors appointed to handle four Twin Peaks case from which McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna recused his office.

Roberts' motion asks that the charges be dismissed with prejudice, meaning they could not be refiled later. The motion said he is seeking the dismissal because there was not sufficient probable cause for the arrest.

"In my opinion, that just wasn't a sufficient basis to charge someone without any evidence that they were involved in any wrongdoing that day," he said. "I am very confident in my decision. As a matter of fact, it was something that the four of us discussed. There was just no evidence to show he was involved in anything that happened there, other than being present, and that ain't enough."

Reyna recused himself from Clendennen's case as it was headed for trial, making it among the first Twin Peaks cases independently reviewed by prosecutors outside Reyna's office.

"The language the special prosecutors use in their motion to dismiss differs dramatically from the weasel words used by Reyna in the Twin Peaks cases previously dismissed by his office," Broden said. "Reyna, unlike the special prosecutors, included language in his dismissal motions attempting to continue the public charade that the arrests of 177 people and 154 indictments were somehow proper... Free from political ambition, the special prosecutors were able to see the frivolousness of this case and it further exposes the actions of Abelino Reyna."

In a status conference Friday, Assistant District Attorney Amanda Dillon told Judge Ralph Strother that the DA's office likely will dismiss all but 25 to 30 cases during a re-evaluation of the Twin Peaks cases. Many of those dismissals could come this week, she said.

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130 civil rights lawsuits filed by bikers against Reyna, McLennan County, the Waco Police Department and local and state law enforcement officials.

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