Posted on 08/11/2021 8:26:01 AM PDT by lowbridge
Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the federal court in Washington deluged with more than 550 prosecutions from the Capitol riot, raised questions about why some defendants were being permitted to resolve their criminal cases by pleading guilty to a misdemeanor and why the amount of money prosecutors are seeking to recover through those plea deals was based on a relatively paltry estimate of about $1.5 million in damages caused by the rioters.
Howell aired her doubts during what was expected to be a routine morning hearing to take the guilty plea of a Capitol riot defendant, Glenn Croy of Colorado Springs, Colo. Croy was arrested in February on charges that he and another man, Terry Lindsey, illegally entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
Under a deal with prosecutors, Croy was seeking to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of parading or picketing in the Capitol. That carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a fine of up to $5,000.
However, Howell’s comments at Croy’s hearing signaled she had broader concerns about prosecutors’ approach than just the way they handled Croy’s fairly typical case.
Croy initially agreed with Howell that his actions on Jan. 6 were taken with what the judge called “the purpose of stopping Congress from certifying the electoral vote from the 2020 presidential election.”
But a short time later his defense attorney, Kira Anne West, added that there was no agreement with prosecutors that was Croy’s intent that day. In fact, West said, his client said he had “no intention of stopping any vote” and didn’t actually know that the Electoral College votes were scheduled to be tallied at the time the historic building was stormed.
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And that statement from her should be at the forefront of every defendants actions from now on. How can they possibly have a fair trial when the judge has prejudged them before ever seeing the paperwork? And says it out loud to the press?
two women were murdered at the
January 2021 Pelosi Exhibition of Treason and Sedition.
what were the names of Pelosi’s henchmen
who murdered these two conservative WHITE WOMEN
who were invited to the murder scenes
by ... Pelosi’s henchmen??
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Come and see the greatest show on earth!
We are not a nation of laws.
We are a nation of lawyers.
She was the judge in the Muller fiasco. No bias here…
No warning?
Wow.
Why doesn’t Barrel Howitzer ask about the (non)prosecution of the antifa dude who led the charge and egged on the demonstrators where Ashli was murdered?
Dunno which is scarier — That the judge is knowingly pushing this nonsense to help her agenda or that she actually believes it.
Yes, we have to remember that this scum “judge” was appointed by the Seditious Kenyan scum and his Commie minions...
Lawyers should demand she step down for prejudice against the defendants
This is most likely true.
Americans aren't known for their grasp of the intricacies of governance.
For Scum Howell to pretend otherwise is just showing her Commie @ss in public.
Hillary’s clone.
And I naively thought judges were supposed to be impartial arbiters.
That’s no female, looks like Nadler’s brother.
Beryl has a Mohs hardness of 7.5-8.0 and can be quite opaque, so such actions do not surprise!
LOL. I didn’t think of that.
They want dictatorial power and no opposition. They will do anything to get it.
Does he think Ashli Babbit got off too easily? Maybe her murderer needs a bronze statue?
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