[hanamizu]

The defense team may try to get him off on some sort of technicality

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What sort of ‘technicality’ could there possibly be that would move a judge (even a DC judge) to dismiss the charges?

[central_va]

The perp and the judge will both have TDS. So there is that.

[flamberge]

What sort of ‘technicality’ could there possibly be that would move a judge (even a DC judge) to dismiss the charges?

They can just make up something. Like "unreasonable search and seizure". It doesn't need to make any sense. Everything depends on the venue.

We live under a pretense of law. No DC Court will convict Cole Allen of anything more serious than littering.

[vivenne]

Not necessarily dismiss out right but possibility. I didn’t have a specific one in mind as my point was more that a technicality could be used by the defense to lower charges or dismissed them.