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  1. Back to the top, trial starts in two weeks https://www.kwtx.com/2023/07/28/judge-rejects-waco-attorneys-request-assist-his-own-defense-during-murder-for-hire-scheme-trial/ WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A visiting judge on Friday rejected Waco attorney Seth Sutton’s request to sit second chair to assist his attorney in his own defense next month at his trial on murder-for-hire charges. Sutton, a prominent attorney who also is known for his work in civic theater, is set to stand trial Aug. 14 on a solicitation of capital murder charge. Judge Roy Sparkman conducted a pretrial hearing in Sutton’s case Friday afternoon, which started late because Sutton, his attorney, Clint Broden, and assistant attorney generals Patrick Sloan and Matt Shawhan spent about 90 minutes behind closed doors trying to reach agreements on other pretrial discovery and motions issues. Broden acknowledged in his motion seeking the “hybrid defense” that no other state but Georgia allows criminal defendants who are attorneys to assist their attorneys at trial. However, he asked the judge to allow it in this case, and the issue was solely within Sparkman’s discretion, despite there being no legal precedent for it in Texas. Sloan opposed the motion, arguing a variety of reasons why the judge should deny the request. He said if granted, Sutton, while questioning witnesses, would be able to introduce “unsworn testimony” without being subject to cross-examination if he chooses not to testify. A hybrid defense also could cause jury confusion about whether Sutton were acting as a defendant or an attorney, Sloan said, adding that it also could cause undue delays in the trial in the “inevitable” event that Sutton and Broden have a conflict during the course of the trial. Sloan also charged that Broden and Sutton filed the motion seeking “hybrid representation” within 48 hours of the state prosecutors filing a sealed notice of extraneous offenses with which they intend to impeach Sutton. “After reviewing what we intend to impeach him with, they filed this motion intended to allow unsworn, backdoor testimony from this defendant, and that is a corruption of the system,” Sloan said. Broden countered that there were no “nefarious” motives for filing the motion and said he anticipates no conflicts because he and Sutton are “on the same page” as far as their defense. “I think it’s an insult to the jury to say it would create jury confusion,” Broden said. The attorney general’s office agreed to prosecute Sutton after the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office recused itself from the case. Likewise, Sparkman was appointed presiding judge after 19th State District Judge Thomas West recused himself. Sparkman said he intends to call 100 potential jurors on Aug. 14 because of the notoriety of the case and the potential that panel members might know those involved in the trial. Court officials said they expect the trial to last about five days. Broden, Sloan and Shawhan declined comment after the pretrial hearing. Sutton, who remains free on bond and continues to practice law, is charged with trying to hire a Waco police undercover officer to kill Waco attorney Marcus Beaudin, who is charged with sexually abusing one of Sutton’s family members. Sutton’s co-defendant in the alleged murder-for-hire plot, Beaudin’s ex-wife, Chelsea Tijerina, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Hays County in May 2021. The undercover officer infiltrated Sutton’s Red Mouse Cult motorcycle club, and Broden alleges in pretrial motions that the officer took advantage of Sutton’s friendship and “pressed Seth to verbalize his fantasy of killing this sexual predator.” The motion also alleges the undercover officer ignored at least three orders from Waco PD commanders to shut down his investigation of the motorcycle club and Sutton, and went “rogue,” continuing the operation without authorization. In a notice the AG’s office filed last week alerting the defense of “potential impeachment material,” Sloane outlined the officer’s apparent refusal to terminate the investigation. The notice said that the officer was made an official “patched” member of the motorcycle club on May 13, 2020, two days after the “third and final directive to suspend the operation.” “This was done without permission and without the knowledge of his chain of command,” Sloane’s notice states. “On Thursday, May 14, (2020) believing (the officer) to be leaving the state, defendant Sutton met with (the officer) and first mentioned killing Marcus Beaudin.”
  2. Did Spence take a 20mg gummy before the fight?
  3. They weren’t even that busy and we waited 30 minutes to order and 30 more minutes to deliver a fucked up order
  4. there's something about the orange, way better than any other brand
  5. well, since they're either playing each other or a Southeast Little Sisters of the Blind Tech, that'll never happen
  6. the case of the above is my go to $11.99 better than Gatorade and all 3 flavors are money dude
  7. The obliviousness of the average Costco shopper is astounding it takes all I have not to put people in the wall like we’re at Talladega bring the entire family, walk five wide down the aisle slowly, more to the left side and by “walk” I mean “mope” camp out in the middle of the aisle, with the cart perpendicular to the aisle, waiting for some free sample, surrounded by three generations
  8. looks like cluster munitions in first video at 12 seconds
  9. The suspect in the Long Island serial killings used the cell phone of at least one of the victims to taunt family members and admitted to killing and sexually assaulting her, prosecutors allege in court documents. Rex Heuermann, who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing three of the four women known as the "Gilgo Four," made multiple taunting calls to the family of Melissa Barthelemy, the documents allege. In one of the calls, he "admitted killing and sexually assaulting Ms. Barthelemy," according to a bail application filed by the Suffolk County district attorney. Investigators say they linked Heuermann to the locations where taunting phone calls or other activity was made on Barthelemy's phone, as well as the phone of Maureen Brainard-Barnes — a fourth woman Heuermann is considered the "prime suspect" for killing — after their disappearances.
  10. Hair believed to be from Rex Heuermann’s wife was found on or near three of the Gilgo Beach murder victims, prosecutors alleged, citing DNA testing. Forensic labs were able to match with near 100% certainty the hairs in July, prosecutors say, after investigators recovered 11 bottles from a garbage can outside Heuermann’s house. They took swabs of the bottles and subsequently matched with close to 100% certainty that DNA to the four female human hairs, according to the bail application. One female human hair was found on one of the buckles of the three belts used to tie Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ feet, ankle and legs together, prosecutors say. Heuermann is the prime suspect in the disappearance and death of Brainard-Barnes, the district attorney said in its bail application Friday. However, he has not yet been charged in connection with her murder. Heuermann was charged in connection with the murder of the other three women, known together with Brainard-Barnes as the "Gilgo Four." Two female hairs were found on a piece of tape and “outside the head area” of Megan Waterman’s body, prosecutors say. Another female hair was also found on a piece of tape that bound Amber Costello’s body, prosecutors say. “As previously noted, Defendant Heuermann’s wife was out-of-state at the time of Ms. Waterman and Ms. Costello’s disappearance and murders,” prosecutors state in the bail application. “As such, it is likely that the burlap, tape, vehicle(s) or other instrumentalities utilized in furtherance of these murders came from Defendant Heuermann’s residence, where his wife also resides, or was transferred from his clothing.”
  11. Authorities were able to obtain a search warrant for Long Island serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann's Google results and watch as he tried to keep up with the investigation, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Friday. "In a 14-month period, he had over 200 searches pertaining to the Gilgo (Beach serial killings) investigation," Tierney said. "He was looking at investigative insight. He was looking, trying to figure out, 'How is the task force using cell phones to try to figure out what is happening? What are the developments with regard to the task force?''" he continued. The warrant also revealed Heuermann was "compulsively" searching for images of the victims and their families, "and he was trying to locate those individuals."
  12. admissible family member DNA was collected from something discarded, like a cup at a restaurant, no expectation of privacy in something that is put in the trash and furthermore, defendant has no expectation of privacy in the DNA of another (no standing to challenge a search or seizure) and I'm sure they just executed a warrant already for a buccal swab on him and it'll exclude double the number of people on earth still, there is a chance Craig James did this
  13. I think coastal is fresher, check out Pass Cavallo/Fish Pond/Sunday Beach can see construction on new Costco in my area
  14. Try this https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb/
  15. https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/top-russian-general-oleg-tsokov-liquidated-by-storm-shadow-missile-in-ukraine-report/
  16. We ran a trip to the SPI jetties, saw some tarpon, no hookups, then went up the beachfront. Picked up a few limits of snapper on trout rods at a honey hole about a half mile off the beach. South of the Mansfield jetty We found large schools of menhaden and birds working and there were tarpon everywhere. We must have seen over 100. Some even right off the boat. Close enough to gaff. Just could not get a hookup - except for some sharks. Trolling motoring live mullet and menhaden and casting DOA bait busters. Then came in the Mansfield jetties and ran the flats back to SPI. Over 70 miles round trip. Been eating snapper all week.
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