Proud Boys defendant Dominic Pezzola smashes Capitol windows with a riot shield on Jan. 6, 2021. (U.S. DOJ/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
Posted on 04/18/2023 8:16:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal judge overseeing the Proud Boys seditious-conspiracy trial in Washington on April 16 rejected a defendant’s calls for a mistrial and his allegations of evidence tampering, withholding of exculpatory evidence, and government misconduct.
In a 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly rejected requests from defendant Dominic Pezzola for a mistrial or dismissal of charges.
Kelly called Pezzola’s conclusions “bizarre” and said they “lack legal and factual support.”
Pezzola claimed he was deprived of exculpatory evidence from video footage aired in March on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Proud Boys defendant Dominic Pezzola smashes Capitol windows with a riot shield on Jan. 6, 2021. (U.S. DOJ/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
Drawn from 41,000 hours of security video from the U.S. Capitol, the Fox broadcasts claimed that defendant Jacob Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, was escorted around the building by police on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Pezzola identifies footage—of other people—treating the Capitol ‘respectfully’ after entering it,” Kelly wrote.
“He concludes ‘that the Senate chamber was never violently breached’ and that there is no ‘evidence of any raucous or extremely disruptive or violent demonstration in the Senate chamber.’
“But Pezzola has not shown how any of this relates to an element of an offense with which he is charged—or how it relates to him at all,” the judge wrote. “Thus, it does not tend to show his ‘freedom from fault, guilt or blame.’”
Kelly wrote that Pezzola was sent a majority of the video he identifies in September 2021 and the rest in January.
Pezzola is one of five defendants charged with seditious conspiracy to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He is on trial for 10 alleged offenses, including using a riot shield to smash Capitol windows.
Other defendants in the case are Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, and Joseph Biggs. The trial began in December 2022 and could move to closing arguments this week.
Kelly ruled that Pezzola has no standing to bring up allegations that the government monitored privileged communications between defendant Rehl and his former attorney.
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What blackmail do they have on this judge or is it just money.
Who knows? We the People need a breakthrough in all this treachery. Something to ask the Lord for!
So much for the trite concept 'innocent until proven guilty' found in our U.S. Constitution.
Given the new face mask tech of the FBI, that person breaking the window could be any one of the 40 FBI actors in a mask.
It is patently obvious his is guilty of this specific offense - which is terrible but not any worse than anything any other rioter (who were not charged) during the Summer of Love 2020 edition.
ESPECIALLY on the DC District People's Court.
One of the "tells" is the vote count.
In Kelly's case, it was 94 to 2 for confirmation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
Big Tell, any Trump appointment that got more than a couple of rat votes was a bad pick bank it.
I guess these poor J6 victims (or are they slobs?) will be able to take some solace from reading about the trials of Joseph after Potiphar’s wife sought revenge.
So hard to believe what is happening to some, and NOT happening to “others”.
Unbelievable. It’s almost like they want to create a separate Revolutionary Tribunal like the French had during Robespierre’s Reign Of Terror.
Or like Tsar Ivan The Terrible’s Oprishniki!
We are really at some perilous times in this country...
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