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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.
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Obama expanded the DC circuit and stuffed it with communists. Now it's clear why.
In addition, the Republican appointed "law and order" judges basically never saw an arrest and prosecution they didn't love, so they were just as bad, even though the disparity between the treatment of J6 protestors and leftists was patent.
BTTT
LOL
I see no evidence that this will happen.
One, if they had a suspicious nature, might suspect that the judge was biased against the defendant.
But that could never be.
We all know that judges adhere tenaciously to their principles of impartiality.
Bates, the DC judge in question, is another ‘gift’ appointed by GW Bush. He was also appointed to the FISA court at one point by none other than John Roberts. This judge has already nullified a Trump executive order this year.
He danced in the Capitol 8 times and got jail time for it?
We are being watched continuously and people accept it. The minute we started tolerating security cameras every 15 feet we stopped being free. You can’t move any distance outside your front door (in the public domain) without being filmed and all film can be edited and put into incorrect context. Add to that the locking down and tracking of your bank accounts and trying to do away with cash, our freedom circled the bowl a long time ago, but as long as football, the Voice are on and FB/TikTok/Instagram work we are all good right?...
What they need is a visit from Wilson Blair.
18 minuets?
I wasn’t aware there was a band on site.
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Those responsible don’t need see inside a jail cell unless it is the holding tank near a gallows.
I wonder how many trials saw that same 22 minute video.
EC
When you invade Nancy’s castle, expect the worst.
“Obama expanded the DC circuit and stuffed it with communists.”
Wait till you see the DIE idiot judges Biden appointed. For perspective think about who he nominated for the Supreme Court. She was the best they could find.
It was clearly malicious. There was no attempt to be fair. People get less for violent assaults, vandalism, etc..
These judges and prosecutors should do time.
LoL
And no sign of a Walz.
Don’t dance around the subject. 😊
All of them
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