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FORT WORTH, Texas – The Texas district attorney prosecuting bikers allegedly involved in a 2015 shootout with police in Waco asked for his office to be recused from the case of a biker scheduled to stand trial Nov. 6.
The biker, Matthew Clendennen, a landscape lighting business owner from Hewitt, Texas, requested earlier this month that the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office be removed from his case because of an alleged ongoing federal investigation of the district attorney, Abel Reyna.
Clendennen was among the 177 bikers arrested following the May 17, 2015, shooting that left 9 dead and 20 injured.
Clendennen sought removal after successfully petitioning to have the presiding state district court judge, Reyna’s former law partner, removed.
The replacement judge, state district court Judge Doug Shaver, was set to hear testimony Monday including from two assistant district attorneys who work for Reyna and former…
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