Good day all. As expected, the legal fallout from the release of the January 6, 2020 security videos is now starting to happen. Defendants are now asking for delays in their trials so that the security footage can be reviewed by their lawyers.
The Democrats and their RINO buddies in the Uniparty have been screaming to the high heaven over the release of all the camera footage by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to Tucker Carlson. One of the reasons is that the footage is blowing apart their narrative that this was an Insurrection to overthrow the government.
The problem now is that people are seeing these images and realizing that the January 6th Committee, the Democrats and the RINO’s who hate the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, appear to have lied through their teeth. One of the main targets of their venom was the QAnon Shaman who was railroaded into a plea deal that may prevent him from appealing. Now others facing trial are asking for delays so that the footage can be reviewed. Here are the details from Just The News:
Amid the public emergence of new video from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, multiple defendants have sought to delay their trials so they can access and review the footage for possible exonerating evidence.
At least five alleged participants in the demonstrations have sought trial delays citing a lack of access to all the relevant evidence in recent weeks, the Epoch Times reported.
As you might expect, all the U.S. Attorneys and federal prosecutors are opposed to giving their targets any chance at showing that they didn’t do most, or any of what they were charged with. Sadly, most of the judges in these cases are either RINO’s or Obama judges.
In his first segment, Carlson showed footage of Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman,” being peacefully escorted by two Capitol Police officers during the incident.
“The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides,” the Fox host asserted. Chansley “understood that the Capitol police were his allies,” he said. “If he was in the act of committing such a grave crime, why didn’t the officers standing right next to him place him under arrest?”
There have been stories about the Capitol Police opening doors and moving fencing so that the protesters could access the Capitol building since the very beginning. We have seen pictures of people basically acting like tourists, not like rabid insurrectionists out to overthrow the government and hang all the senators and representatives. Now with the 10’s of thousands of hours of videos being made available, people who are being held want to look at it, especially if they have been charged with things like assault, when that never happened.
Capitol Police and lawmakers alike have taken exception to the news anchor’s portrayal of that day as a largely peaceful affair. Police have asserted that the footage he aired showcased a police effort to deescalate a previously raucous situation.
There were people who did go to far and yes, they need to face a jury. However, they also have the right to see all the evidence available. Then you have those who wandered into the building. They didn’t break anything or hurt anyone. Many of them have been slammed with charges all out of proportion to what happened. (Many are still locked up without trial, the classic definition of political prisoners)
There were several cases where police brought people suffering medical emergencies into the building to render aid. Federal prosecutors are trying to make examples of them, and one such victim of prosecutorial misconduct died in custody. In his case, there was photographic evidence that he was trying to stay out of the building, but was being carried along by the crowd and was either injured or taken ill. He was taken into the building, and later on arrested for, wait for it, illegally entering the building.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also expressed disagreement with Carlson’s narrative, insisting “it was a mistake” for the network to allow his segment to air.
Cocaine Mitch is one of those Uniparty Deep Staters who despise the people they claim to represent. I suspect he is in his last term in office. If he does try to run again, with all the things he’s done in the last few years to the GOP base, he will probably lose his primary.
McCarthy previously insisted in late February that the public had a vested interest in learning the truth of the matter, saying “the American public should actually see all [that] happened instead of a report that’s written [on] a political basis.“
All those defense attorneys are in agreement with McCarthy. I believe the lawyer for the QAnon Shaman is furious that the videos showing his client basically wandering around with a police escort were not available to him when the plea agreement was signed.
Defense attorneys have had access to surveillance footage from the Department of Justice (DOJ) database, but some have expressed concerns the federal agency may not have received the entire amount of footage that Fox did. The Epoch Times highlighted concerns from attorney William Shipley, who observed that “if Congress… held back video then DOJ would not have it to put in the database.”
“It is not possible to say definitively right now that defense attorneys did — in fact — have all the videos that Tucker/Fox is showing. McCarthy says he gave Fox everything. That might include videos not given to DOJ,” he asserted.
This is going to be a nice legal can of worms being opened. If the videos do contain exculpatory evidence, and it was not provided to the Defense councils, nor was it provided to the DoJ by the Congress, (at the time, that would be Pelosi), you will be seeing mistrials and appeals galore. Of course, the big question is, is there exculpatory information?
Defendant Shane Jenkins made exactly this argument recently, arguing that the Republican-driven release of footage included at least 25,000 hours of footage to which his attorneys had not previously had access, the Times noted.
“The request for additional time is necessary in order to adequately and diligently review all discovery pertaining to Mr. Jenkins and to determine whether any video contains relevant and material information that would pertain to Mr. Jenkins’ defense,” defense attorney Dennis Boyle wrote in a motion seeking delay of the trial, set to begin March 21.
“Video evidence depicting Mr. Jenkins would constitute both exculpatory and material evidence, which would require disclosure from the government,” he continued.
The judge has yet to rule on the motion.
Unfortunately, in another case, a judge has ruled and denied the defense the opportunity to review the security footage. Here are those details from the Post Millennial:
On Friday, Sara Carpenter, a retired New York Police officer, was found guilty in a Washington, DC court on seven criminal counts, including two felonies, for her actions on January 6, after US District Court Judge James Boasberg denied her request on March 3 for a delay so that her lawyer’s could review the recently released footage of that day by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Freedom News reported, “Retired NYPD Spokes person, Sara Carpenter, has been convicted on all counts on January 6 charges, after a judge denied her request to push back the start of her trial to allow time to review about 44,000 hours of Capitol riot footage from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.”
This corrupt judge’s reasoning also provide a very wide avenue for appeal. According to Politico, this incompetent judge thought that it would make it harder to railroad people into jail.
Boasberg worried that widely permitting Jan. 6 defendants to slow down their criminal proceedings in order to review this footage could “derail dozens of trials that are set in the next few months.” Boasberg — who is set to become Washington D.C.’s chief district court judge later this month — suggested that to support a delay, he would need defense attorneys to proffer what the newly disclosed videos might show that would be helpful to their clients’ cases.
That is exactly the wrong reason to deny the motion. A defendant has the RIGHT to review all evidence against him or her. That this crooked, Deep State judge has denied the defense access to information that may prove exculpatory should be grounds to remove him from the bench. Of course, this was never about justice, it was about punishing anyone who dared stand up to the Deep State.
There have been several people already convicted, and others who were blackmailed into taking plea agreements. With the new information showing that most people, other then walking through and basically acting as tourists, not to mention other footage showing the capitol police not only letting people in but escorting them through the building, look for appeals being filed in the next few days.
What is going to be interesting is what happens January 20th, 2025. If the Republicans retake the White House especially if it’s the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, you can expect both a large number of pardons, and criminal investigations into the current crop of DoJ officials prosecuting these cases and Judges hearing them. We are definitely living in interesting times.
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