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Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:35 AM Mar 2018

Judge to determine if explicit personal videos should be recalled in Twin Peaks case

An attorney for former Twin Peaks shootout defendant Cody Ledbetter asked a judge on Friday to order the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office to recall sexually explicit photos and videos of Ledbetter and his wife that the DA’s office distributed to 177 Twin Peaks defendants as part of the discovery process.

The DA’s office dismissed the criminal case against Ledbetter, a 28-year-old diesel mechanic from Waco with no criminal record, last week, four days before a jury panel was to report to fill out questionnaires and ahead of his April 2 trial date. While Ledbetter said he was relieved to get the criminal case behind him, he wants the DA’s office to ask lawyers for the 177 bikers arrested who received the private photos and videos of him and his wife to return them.

Judge Matt Johnson of Waco’s 54th State District Court took the request under advisement following a brief hearing Friday after prosecutors Sterling Harmon and Gabrielle Massey argued that Johnson’s court no longer has jurisdiction over Ledbetter’s case since the dismissal. They said it could cost the state an additional $4,500 in shipping fees to recall the discovery, remove the photos and videos and send the mounds of evidence back out.

The judge said he wants to review cases the attorneys submitted to determine if his court still has jurisdiction.

Read more: http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/judge-to-determine-if-explicit-personal-videos-should-be-recalled/article_a57d0738-03ea-5194-8927-bd203efa959c.html

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