Posted on 01/22/2020 7:27:54 PM PST by bitt
A sentencing memo filed Wednesday by former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s defense attorney states that the Justice Department prosecutor’s reversal in asking for prison time on Flynn is retribution for his decision not to testify to ‘lies’ in the case of his former business partner, whose conviction was overturned by a federal judge last year.
Sidney Powell, Flynn’s defense attorney, asked the courts for leniency suggesting probation, instead of prosecutors demands to sentence Flynn for up to six months in prison for one count of lying to the FBI. Her memo also detailed major issues she said amounts to prosecutorial misconduct in her client’s case and the reason why Flynn was coerced by prosecutors into pleading guilty.
“If after the briefing filed this Friday, the government continues to wrongfully on the path to sentencing, Mr. Flynn should be given probation,” she told SaraACarter.com. “He is innocent of all charges, he is a national treasure, and he is a patriot. This entire prosecution is a travesty of justice and a grotesque abuse of power by the FBI and DOJ while they still hide the original 302 that shows he told the truth.”
Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is presiding over Flynn’s case, granted Powell’s request for a delay. Last week, Sullivan pushed Flynn’s sentencing hearing from Jan. 28 to Feb. 27.
Flynn has requested to withdraw his guilty plea, which was an agreement he made while cooperating with former Robert Mueller’s special counsel’s office when it began investigation the now debunked theory that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. At the time, he had pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about the content of his phone conversation with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to the U.S.
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Time for Yrump to pardon Flynn.
bkmk
Flynn needs to be exonerated and made whole. The prosecutors and the Judge need to swing on a rope.
Can AG Barr order this corrupt persecution be terminated?
Time for the AG to pull his corrupt prosecutors.
a grotesque abuse of power by the ,,,DOJ,,,
Who runs the DOJ? Some guy who plays the bagpipes?
How can he in good conscious let this go on?
This is one of the best examples of corruption and the power of the Deep State Shadow Government.
The DSSG will bring on revolution and anarchy (the kind defined by “a society or group of people that totally rejects unjustified hierarchy”) if they are not brought to a stop.
Are they ready to start that bloodbath?
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