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Lawyer defending 17 alleged Capitol breachers goes missing ... John Pierce has been unreachable and missing court dates since early last week
https://justthenews.com ^ | Updated: September 1, 2021 - 8:38am | By Sophie Mann

Posted on 09/01/2021 6:02:06 AM PDT by Red Badger

John Pierce, the attorney defending 17 clients charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has gone missing.

His missed an Aug. 24 court hearing for one of his clients, and nobody has seen him since.

On Wednesday, Pierce's associate told a judge the defense attorney had contracted COVID-19 and was in the hospital on a ventilator. The associate also allegedly told a prosecutor Pierce had been in a car accident.

Later on, a different associate told a reporter that Pierce was in the hospital being treated for dehydration and exhaustion.

This week, the Justice Department got involved, informing several judges that no one had heard from Pierce in a week and that "multiple" phone lines for his law firm seem to have been disconnected.

Pierce's disappearance is endangering the rights of his clients, whose cases have come to a standstill.

The self-described, pro-Trump populist came out swinging at the outset of the defense proceedings for his many clients, promising he would force the government to hand over video footage of the Capitol from several days before and after the incident.

He also said he would demand information about every officer on duty throughout the complex that day, as well as subpoena House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other likely hostile witnesses.

"I'm like Gerard Butler in '300.' I'm in the hot gates at Thermopylae, holding the pass against the million-man Persian army," said Pierce in an interview prior to his disappearance.

Last year, Pierce was publicly fired by Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man charged with murder at a racial justice protest last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse relieved his attorney of his position following allegations that a charity arranged for the defense had engaged in financial misdeeds.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: again; andagain; capitol; jan6th; missingagain
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To: JoSixChip

deep state got to him


21 posted on 09/01/2021 6:51:53 AM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Red Badger

I can imagine a Van swooping by, a crew getting out and throwing a bag over his head and taking him to a CIA/FBI torture house. Its become so Nazi Germany.


22 posted on 09/01/2021 6:53:03 AM PDT by Swirl
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To: EEGator

Thata boy ....well unless you are a girl then atta girl


23 posted on 09/01/2021 6:54:24 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: al baby

I identify as a meat puppet.


24 posted on 09/01/2021 6:57:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: JoSixChip

Anyone consider he is there to throw a monkey wrench into the works, not for his clients.


25 posted on 09/01/2021 7:08:21 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Wood, Pierce, Barnes. Yikes, what choices Kyle has made in attorneys.


26 posted on 09/01/2021 7:08:22 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: EEGator

Just never Google meat spin


27 posted on 09/01/2021 8:00:52 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Red Badger

Pelosi had him offed


28 posted on 09/01/2021 8:02:59 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: al baby

Now I have to. You’ve left me no choice in the matter.


29 posted on 09/01/2021 8:03:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: KevinB

Robert Barnes is one of the few attorneys that is really fighting for ALL the protections the Founding Fathers enshrined into our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Please do not confuse him with Wood and Pierce.

For more on Barnes work, see vivabarneslaw.locals.com


30 posted on 09/01/2021 8:33:24 AM PDT by Bob Stone (Satyameva Jayate - the Truth Alone Triumphs)
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To: albie

He/his/her/it/they/whatever. Be thankful it wasn’t written in Ebonics or Mandarin.


31 posted on 09/01/2021 8:41:39 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Bob Stone
Please do not confuse him with Wood and Pierce.

Yes, I'm familiar with Barnes and his work.

32 posted on 09/01/2021 9:04:30 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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