Posted on 03/31/2021 4:32:00 PM PDT by janetjanet998
JUST IN: Key eyewitness will plead the 5th if called to testify. Atty for Morries Lester Hall, who was inside Cup Foods & the SUV w/ #GeorgeFloyd asks for subpoena to be quashed. Otherwise he will "invoke his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
He passed phony money and tore some up in the car
Of course the state could grant him immunity but they won’t
Counterfeiting is a federal crime. They can’t grant him immunity on that one. He can take the fifth. He should take the fifth.
On second thought it’s a federal crime not state
But he would know if Floyd was doing drugs in the car and if he passed out in it
I’d rather he took the stand, but this wont hurt the defense.
I would recommend fleeing that city. It is going to burn down.
Correct
For some reason that slipped my mind at the time of the posting
But surely the store clerk told others that he was passing phonies well before today
If a witness who can provide exculpatory evidence for the defense invokes the Fifth Amendment and refuses to testify, then I’m thinking this could be grounds for a dismissal of the case because it effectively strips the accused of his constitutional right to call witnesses on his behalf.
He told Floyd to stop resisting and that he was going to have a heart attack (which he likely did) and also I assume already made statements
I’m sure the feds already knew about the funny money and could have charged him long ago
“It is going to burn down.”
Win or lose.
If he testifies in defense of the officer, he’s a dead man.
this is the back seat guy that was very preoccupied with his backpack?
shady character that one
Has it been determined if Floyd knew that the $20 was counterfeit?
Courts have ruled that if there is a reasonable chance that your testimony could result in self crimination you have the right to refuse.
Courts have ruled that if there is a reasonable chance that your testimony could result in self crimination you have the right to refuse.
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But I assume that Is only for those parts that pertain to you and not such things as
Did Floyd pass out
in the car ?
Did you tell him to to stop resisting
Did you warn him he was going to have a heart attack ?
Also couldn’t the feds just grant him immunity ?
Snitches get cement shoes.
>>Counterfeiting is a federal crime. They can’t grant him immunity on that one.
Joseph Stolen can.
Don’t know but the clerk had previously rejected one like it and the manager had a policy that the clerk would have to pay the difference anytime he took a forged bill as genuine.
Today the press is saying that the clerk feels guilty for calling the cops on George Floyd, known criminal.
uh oh
Key witness in George Floyd trial who was in the car with him refuses to testify - despite initially telling reporters: ‘I’m going to be his voice’
Morries Lester Hall, 42, was in the car with Floyd, 46, on the day of his death
The two men were from Houston, Texas and met through a Minneapolis pastor
Hall initially vowed he was ‘going to be his voice’ and said he was a ‘key witness’
He had outstanding warrants for his arrest on felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault and felony drug possession
Two days after Floyd’s death, Hall left Minneapolis and hitch-hiked to Houston
Minneapolis police tracked him down and arrested him, jailing him overnight
It was unclear why he was suddenly refusing to appear in court as a witness
It seems like the prosecution team didn't do a good job of thinking this whole thing through.
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