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Bill D. Hicks: “Riot is just a class B misdemeanor, at least the way we…”

Featuring: Bill D. Hicks, Republican | El Paso County District Attorney | Texas

El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference.

Published June 12, 2024 | Video Starts at 14:04

They'll just give up. Well, certainly we never want to send that message, but DWI is just a class B misdemeanor. It's just a class B. Riot is just a class B misdemeanor, at least the way we indicted it for these people. it's just a class B misdemeanor. Make it really, really hard and they'll give up. Never. Never. Justice is justice, and we fight hard in our courts every day to seek justice. (14:04–14:11)

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Asserts that the riot cases were indicted as class B misdemeanors.

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“The district clerk had complied with that process. The county clerk had complied with that process.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 00:15-00:21
“59 cases were transferred from the indictment court to the county court.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 00:29-00:34
“The remaining 59 were dismissed. Those individuals, if they have not already been released from jail, will be released here today or…”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 02:10-02:19
“We could just go ahead and appeal what we believe to be an erroneous order on the judge's part.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 03:08-03:15
“Judge Morales rulings and orders were improper.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 05:04-05:08
“We anticipate the judge to grant the plea to the jurisdiction, much as he did on the first 59.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 05:56-06:02
“The ability of the state to appeal a case is very narrow.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 07:33-07:39
“The first 214 [cases], we're waiting for the second record.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 08:18-08:18
“We realized this was most likely going to end up being an appellate issue and not a trial court issue.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 08:18-08:29
“There's no bar to us re-indicting the cases.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 08:51-08:53
“It's not migrant cases because these are riot cases.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 09:04-09:08
“This 59 was the last group of rioters that we had in the county jail.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 09:38-09:44
“We don't have any others that are pending in court and in jail.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 09:46-09:51
“Ms. Childress, the public defender, has a political motive.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 09:59-11:02
“They could have gone to trial at any point.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 11:10-11:13
“Everything that we've done has been responsive to actions taken either by the judge or by the public defender.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 13:03-13:11
“There's no additional resources from the state of Texas on these particular cases.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 15:32-15:38
“The Border Prosecution Unit is a organization which helps to fund all transnational prosecutions, not specifically riot cases.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 15:38-15:56
“We didn't get funding from the BPU to prosecute riot cases.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 16:02-16:08
“There's no way to segregate the money that goes to these cases versus every other case.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 17:09-17:15
“The rulings have been unlawful, so I think that we're certainly appealing them because we believe that the law was not followed.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 18:51-18:59
“Neither the public defender's office nor the district attorney's office have any control over how the Council of Judges makes the assignment…”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 19:09-19:19
“It's very unusual to have a public defender's office representing not just being appointed to 27 people, but then filing motions on 50…”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 19:44-19:57
“I think it's extremely rare to have a judge granting pleas to the jurisdiction on cases like this.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 20:05-20:12
“The District Attorney's office has every intention of holding you accountable [if you commit a crime in our community].”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 21:43-21:49
“The District Attorney's office will not hesitate to continue to fight to protect the citizens of our community.”
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference. | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 21:58-22:06