Judge denies motion to disqualify Reyna from Twin Peaks shootout cases

McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna can continue to direct the prosecution of 154 bikers indicted in the May 2015 Twin Peaks shootout, a judge ruled Thursday.

Matt Johnson, judge of 54th State District Court, denied a motion from bikers Matthew Clendennen and Ray Nelson that claimed Reyna should be disqualified from their cases because he has a financial interest in seeing that they are convicted and because he overstepped his authority when advising police about the mass arrests of 177 bikers.

Reyna did not return a phone message left at his office Thursday.

Attorneys for Reyna and the bikers filed briefs outlining their arguments Wednesday afternoon, and Johnson wasted no time making a ruling.

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