Posted on 08/19/2023 1:55:00 AM PDT by CFW
An Idaho judge dismissed on Friday the state’s case against a Patriot Front member accused of conspiring to riot at an LGBT demonstration last year, finding that a prosecutor acted in “bad faith” by failing to provide the defendant with possibly exculpatory evidence.
Judge Destry Randles’s order stems from the incident in June 2022, when 31 members of the right-wing nationalist group were arrested after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army” at a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene.
Five of the Patriot Front defendants were convicted of misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to riot last month, while the group’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, is set to stand trial on Sept. 22.
But the Patriot Front’s Richard Jessop is now in the clear after Judge Randle dismissed the conspiracy charge against him Friday.
“The Court concludes dismissal is the only way this Court can instill some sense of justice back into this matter. There is no confidence the State has even yet complied with its discovery obligations,” Judge Randles said in her scathing order, which was directed towards Coeur d’Alene’s deputy city attorney, Ryan Hunter.
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So the prosecutor will be disbarred when exactly?
L
How utterly convenient.
“I’m convinced Patriot Front is a fed group”
I believe it’s left wing dark money funded and organized. Someone finally did a deep dive on them maybe 8 months ago.
I’ll see if I can find it, but it is buried deep.
Ditto. 'You are free to go!' said the judge , wink , wink , nudge, nudge.
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