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.
deep state got to him
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.
Thata boy ....well unless you are a girl then atta girl
I identify as a meat puppet.
Anyone consider he is there to throw a monkey wrench into the works, not for his clients.
Wood, Pierce, Barnes. Yikes, what choices Kyle has made in attorneys.
Just never Google meat spin
Pelosi had him offed
Now I have to. You’ve left me no choice in the matter.
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
He/his/her/it/they/whatever. Be thankful it wasn’t written in Ebonics or Mandarin.
Yes, I'm familiar with Barnes and his work.
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