Posted on 06/10/2020 12:54:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn said there was evidence of a “gross abuse” of prosecutorial power and that the request should be denied.
Former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson said in a filing Wednesday that the government “has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President.” He urged the judge handling the case to deny the motion and argued that Flynn had committed perjury.
Gleeson slammed the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case, saying the arguments from prosecutors were “riddled” with legal errors.
“The Government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding,” Gleeson wrote. “They contradict and ignore this Court’s prior orders, which constitute law of the case. They are riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact. And they depart from positions that the Government has taken in other cases.”
Sullivan also asked Gleeson to explore whether he should hold Flynn in “criminal contempt for perjury.”
In the filing, Gleeson said it was clear that Flynn had committed perjury and should be punished but that it should be a factor considered at his sentencing, as opposed to additional charges being brought against him.
“This approach - rather than a separate prosecution for perjury or contempt - aligns with the Court’s intent to treat this case, and this Defendant, in the same way it would any other,” Gleeson wrote.
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Oral arguments Friday. Don’t know how long after that for a Circuit Court Judgement. Expect judgement to go in Flynn’s favor and then Sullivan will file appeal for a hearing before the full DC Circuit Panel. That will probably result in another two to three weeks delay which is the objective of this whole thing. If they lose that, they will appeal to the Supreme Court. Expect this thing to drag on through August and perhaps longer.
CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC...and FOX all needed a lead story tonight!
And we see how the narrative is shaped. THe judge appoints a “special counsel” who happens to be an ex-judge, and now the news pretends that this is a comment from a judicial review, and not a partisan argument by a prosecutor.
Are you freaking kidding me? Talk about opposite day.
This Gleeson is one sick puppy.
and what makes this former judge God, King and Emperor, all in 1?
Law? Justice? and the pursuit thereof? maybe even the truth? (/suppressed guffaw)
So a rat hack Judge gets a F’n retired rat hack to Judge to back his lawless action. Yeah Roberts all judges are “just judges”
Judgie’s doing his very best against all America stands for.
This is how the old Soviet system went about jurisprudence.
ping
ping
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Sullivan looking for cover from Gleeson...
As I expected, the goal for Sullivan is to turn the Flynn case into an investigation of Trump.
The Judge deliberately overlooking proven malfeasance on the part of prosecutors in the case is abuse of power.
This judge needs to be removed from the bench.Whats taking so long?
Has Flynn ever stated that he plead guilty under duress? It would seem to me, a non-lawyer, that anything said in court under duress is cause for dismissal.
Sullivan then asked Prosecutor van Grack whether Special Counsel Mueller's Office had considered charging Flynn with treason. That would easily induce stress for almost anyone. Any decision Flynn would have made in that context would inherently have to be considered "under duress."
Although Sullivan backtracked from his statement, the damage had already been done. One could easily argue Sullivan should have been forced to recuse and that the hearing should be redone with a different judge. The way it was left, however, did put another arrow into Powell's quiver to seek Sullivan's recusal and have the case against Flynn vacated, the latter of which was so far done by the DOJ.
Withholding exculpatory evidence is not only prosecutorial misconduct, it is a very serious felony.
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