Good day all. A few months ago, The Grand Inquisitor, Robert Mueller, indicted a number of Russian companies and individuals. He saw it as an easy political win since he never expected any of the Russians to actually appear in court.
Well, that plan exploded in his face a few weeks ago when one of the companies did just that. To top it off, their lawyers announced that they were going to demand a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment. This caught Mueller and his team to turnip-heads completely off-guard, and they asked for a delay in the proceedings so they could actually build a prosecutable case. Here are the updated details from the Daily Caller:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old speedy trial law in the case against 13 Russians and three Russian companies and has asked for a 90-day delay in his Russian collusion case. The defendant, Concord Management and Consulting, joined in his request, filing a joint motion.
Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump appointee, accepted the request, granting “that the period of period May 23, 2018 to August 28, 2018 is excluded for purposes of Speedy Trial Act calculations.” Friedrich had rejected an earlier request from Mueller without comment and ordered the case to go forward. The Speedy Trial Act is a 44-year old federal law that dictates that a federal criminal case must begin within 70 days from the date of the indictment.
Since both sides agreed to this, I don’t have a problem. One reason I can see the Russians lawyers asking for a delay is to have time to go through the “Evidence” that Mueller and his group manufactured gathered. Since Mueller never expected this case to happen, he probably never did any preparation work for a trial.
Mueller originally filed the indictment against the Russians on Feb. 16, charging that they “engaged in a multi-year conspiracy” to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. Because none of the defendants were U.S. citizens, law experts said it appeared unlikely that the case would ever go to trial.
And we can see how well that’s working out for Mueller. Now he has to actually put a case together.
Dubelier has repeatedly notified the court he would insist on using “discovery” to review the “evidence” the special counsel had accumulated about their charge of Russian collusion. His use of discovery would compel Mueller to turn over the U.S. intelligence about Russian activities.
And Mueller used the standard prosecutorial technique of burying the defense team with information.
In response, Mueller informed the court on May 16 his office was prepared to enter two terabytes of Russian social media into the record, thereby flooding the docket with a huge amount of evidence, all of it in Russian. The volume could fill 3,000 CD-ROM discs.
If Mueller thinks this is going to phase the Russians defense team, I would wager he has another thing coming. Any defense lawyer would know that in this sort of case, the prosecution is going to bury the defense, and use that time to perfect the case they should have had ready to go the minute they went for an indictment.
Mueller is probably going to get his head handed to him in court. This will probably be the first case that actually goes to trial. Mueller’s usual method of operation is bullying and extortion to gain plea agreements that have no basis on the actual guilt or innocence of the person on trial. If, as I expect, this blows up in his face, it might just spell the end of his investigation, and the beginning of the investigation into Robert Mueller.
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