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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 07:58 PM Apr 2017

Motions seek dismissal of Twin Peaks indictment, help in finding 'needle in haystack'

A Dallas attorney representing a biker arrested in the Twin Peaks shootout fired off a series of motions Tuesday, including one to quash the indictment that includes an illustration of a ham sandwich.

Clint Broden, who represents former Scimitar Matthew Clendennen, is asking 54th State District Judge Matt Johnson to order District Attorney Abel Reyna to identify specific evidence his office intends to use against Clendennen contained in what Broden describes as a three terabyte "document dump" of materials collected against the 155 bikers indicted in the case.

Broden contends the sheer volume of materials released by prosecutors to defense attorneys, "almost all of which appears to have absolutely no relation to Mr. Clendennen," amounts to searching for a needle in a haystack.

"While the state certainly cannot be faulted for complying with the Michael Morton Act, due process requires it to go further," Broden wrote. "Indeed, this court should not endorse a method of document production that merely gives the requesting party access to a 'document dump,' with an instruction to the party to 'go fish.' "

Read more: http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/motions-seek-dismissal-of-twin-peaks-indictment-help-in-finding/article_e6af7851-440e-5379-b01f-97a4f0b08ea3.html

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