Posted on 12/27/2024 8:01:22 AM PST by Michael.SF.
Few sources are better at research than fellow freepers.
Who has a good website reference to find a summary of abuses that have occurred to the political prisoners being held or already convicted and released.
In particular: Civil rights violations during court proceedings is of particular interest.
Thanks in advance for any assistance provided.
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I don’t know of a website, but would like to see that information. I do know a New Mexican man, Couy Griffith, who was a county commissioner when he attended the Jan. 6 rally and ended up on the steps of the Capitol, never entering the inside. He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor trespassing. When he was released and went back to New Mexico the liberal state government there harassed him to no end. And the state Supreme Court removed him from his county commissioner position and ruled he can never run for public office again. Google him.
Listening.
Here’s one: https://americangulag.org/
Seems to me that those whose Constitutional rights have been violated will have an easier time suing over the next 4 years.
Thanks Theo, that is what I was looking for!
Thank you for that. I recall the story, but did not recall his name. That will be a good story for my purposes.
Most prominently, under what is known as the Brady rule based on the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the government is required to preserve and make available to defendants all the evidence in a case, including exculpatory evidence. That makes almost any government withholding or destruction of potentially exculpatory evidence problematic enough to void a prosecution -- if the law is followed.
Brady violations infect all the January 6 cases. In the accommodating, Democrat run and government friendly DC District and Circuit federal courts though, this was almost entirely ignored.
As now revealed by US House and Inspector General investigations, the federal government withheld and lied about: (1) the foreknowledge by federal agencies and the participation of federal agents and informants in the January 6 riot and intrusions into the Capitol; and (2) the violation of orders by the Pentagon and the knowing and deliberate failure of the Capitol Police and Speaker Pelosi to properly defend the Capitol.
In addition, the government ordered the destruction of crucial evidence in the form of Secret Service cellphone data and text messages. So also was the Pelosi House committee investigation of January 6 tainted by procedural irregularities and the withholding and the destruction of potential exculpatory evidence. In that manner, the Pelosi House participated in the federal government misconduct toward the January 6 defendants.
There are also Fourteenth Amendment issues of selective and bad faith prosecutions, overcharging, and extortionate plea demands for little more than demonstrating in front of or entering the Capitol building on January 6. In the past, such conduct was uncharged or minimally prosecuted if it was charged.
The January 6 defendants though were generally treated as if they were all part of a conspiracy to overthrow the federal government. Similar demonstrations and Capitol intrusions in the past were never treated that way. Why was January 6 so different?
As we will learn in the coming months, there was a conspiracy at work on January 6. It was by Trump-hostile security agencies and Trump enemies in Congress to spur and facilitate a riot and Capitol intrusion. The purpose was to impeach and smear Trump and set him up for criminal prosecution.
In actuality, insurrection and treason charges are due against those responsible -- including Pelosi and a clutch of federal officials. The January 6 prosecutors should be charged with civil rights violations. The federal judges who helped railroad the January 6 defendants should be forced to resign or retire under threat of impeachment.
Lots of good points made here.
I will send you a private note.
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