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On Monday, one of the Cossacks’ wives, Nena Jackson, testified about being assaulted while the pair were on vacation with other Cossacks in Port Aransas in Aug. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Chad Lloyd, on the stand, gave his explanation of recordings of body wires worn by confidential sources or wiretapped phone calls of Portillo. The issue momentarily stalled Tuesday’s testimony and came as U.S. “I will warn the government that when I rule about not mentioning something, counsel needs to be much more careful about the types of questions counsel asks, particularly where the court ruled the testimony needs to be avoided,” Ezra said outside the presence of jurors on Tuesday. Outside the presence of the jury a day earlier, the judge had barred mention of that TV clip, agreeing with defense lawyers that it contained inadmissible hearsay. District Judge David Ezra came after a federal agent mentioned a television news clip that said Bandidos had attacked members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club at a bar in Port Aransas in August 2015.

Pike is being tried in San Antonio with then national vice president John Xavier Portillo on allegations that they led the Bandidos’ criminal enterprise, though the Waco shootout is not part of the racketeering charges they face.ĭuring Tuesday’s proceedings, the judge rejected a request for a mistrial by defense lawyers, but warned prosecutors to abide by his rulings barring certain evidence from coming in. “Oh, (they’re) going to wear one that’s bigger than ours? It’s kind of like a slap in the face.”įorster also testified in support of prosecutor’s contentions that the Bandidos had clashes with the Cossacks before and after the infamous shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant in in May 2015. “And they made it bigger than our bottom rocker, so a lot of guys were upset about that,” Forster testified.