Posted on 05/13/2025 4:10:15 AM PDT by grundle
I picked a J6 case at random to review because I wanted to see how bad it was.
And let me tell you the random one I picked did not disappoint. This defendant went into the capital and walked down the corridor. He was not accused of violence. He did not break anything. He did not hurt anybody. He was sentenced by a jury to 19 months in prison he was overcharged by the prosecutor to the point where it should be called malicious prosecution, and a judge rubber stamped every single thing the prosecutor asked for.
The most egregious part of these filings was that the government introduced a 22 minute video montage that spliced together key breaches that occurred that day.
They introduced that video to a jury even when the defendant in question is only shown on that video for less than 60 seconds.
The defendant in question was not violent. He was walking through a hallway in the capital building with the crowd, he looked like it was a walking tour in the picture still shot.
The remaining 21 minutes, shows the most violent portions of the event spliced together.
Luckily, this defendant seems to have had competent attorneys who filed a motion to exclude this video. The defendant’s lawyers argued that this video montage is highly prejudicial because it shows a jury a 22 minute video where all they see are the most extreme parts of the whole day, but the defendant in question is only on that videotape for six seconds and is seen walking around peacefully.
Further, attorneys for the defendant argued that the majority of the jury in Washington DC is made of a federal employees. This video is meant to inflame a jury, it has no probative value, and therefore is a violation of federal rule of evidence 401 (which by the way they teach like on the first day of criminal procedure in law school).
District Court Judge Bates declined the motion and allowed the prosecutor to include the video montage.
I would be willing to bet everything I own that submitting a 22 minute video montage that shows the most egregious acts of violence you can find from that day when the defendant in question is on that video for only six seconds and is seen walking calmly is highly prejudicial and a violation of the defendants due process rights.
This person was found guilty and sentenced to 19 months in prison.
Let me repeat that again, this person got 19 months in prison for walking through the capital for 8 minuets.
It took me two hours to read through all of the documents that were in this case file. Every motion submitted by the defendant was denied, and every motion submitted by the government was granted.
They turned a trespass misdemeanor that would have result in a $50 ticket into a 5 misdemeanors and a felony charge by charging the defendant with a statute that would have required the Secret Service to rope off the section he was in, which they did not, they also charged him with a statute that would have required them to prove Mike Pence was in the building at the time he walked through that corridor, he was not, and finally they used an Enron statue that the Supreme Court struck down.
This defendant had to spend two years and probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees for spending 20 minutes in the building and walking through the corridors.
And this is just the first case I dug into.
Imagine if we had the time to dig into the details of each and every single one of these cases, read all the filings and compile a report on the amount of due process violations that were committed. You know it’s called journalism. Something that only Julie Kelly and a small few others seem to understand how to do as it relates to J6.
People need to see the inside of jail cells. This is so far beyond prosecutorial discretion. This is straight up political persecution. But the biggest problem here are the judges that rubber stamped all of it.
Appalling. And our justice system has been corrupt for a long time, including the military. Law schools stopped teaching to uphold the Constitution and now only teach “case law”—which has turned into winning your case at any cost, by any means including lying; or in the role of prosecutors, threatening the suspect’s witnesses or family members.
deepers
That Jury needs to go to prison. I want to see these DC jurors rounded up and put in prison for denial of civil rights under color of authority.
They are shitty people and they deserve getting treated like the sh*t they are.
19 months after how many months (years?) sitting in prison awaiting trial, quite likely in solitary. Do none of these people get credit for time served> I think not.
There is no reason for the Federal District to have District or Circuit Courts other than to infringe on the powers of the Legislative or Executive Branches.
Congress has the power to legislate for the District “in all cases whatsoever”.
End home rule in D.C.
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