Posted on 04/14/2022 3:54:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Despite a humiliating defeat in what the Justice Department considered one of its biggest domestic terror investigations in recent history, federal prosecutors announced they will re-try two men who were not acquitted last week on charges of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
Chief District Court Judge Robert Jonker declared a mistrial on April 8 after a jury in western Michigan could not agree on the guilt of Adam Fox, the so-called ringleader, and Barry Croft, Jr. related to the alleged plot; two other men, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were found not guilty on all charges and went home last Friday night after spending 18 months in jail.
Defense attorneys argued the men were entrapped by the FBI, which the jury presumably believed in the case of Harris and Caserta. Numerous FBI experts and agents took the stand for the government, as did Dan Chappel, the lead informant and one of his FBI handlers. The three-week trial exposed a wide-ranging operation inside the FBI and Justice Department to target the men—who did not know each other until the FBI got involved—infiltrate the group with informants and undercover agents, create encrypted group chats monitored by the FBI, plan and fund excursions including a surveillance trip to Whitmer’s summer cottage, secretly record every conversation including when the targets were high on marijuana, and drive several defendants to the arrest site in October 2020 under a phony pretense.
Nonetheless, Andrew Birge, assistant U.S. Attorney for Western Michigan, confirmed this week his office plans to again prosecute Fox and Croft; Birge’s office told a Grand Rapids television station on Monday that charges will be refiled.
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The DOJ spent good money on this hoax. They want something for that money (of yours) that they invested.
Of course they will...it’s a big part of The Great Election Robbery Of 2020. So if they even get *one* conviction...on a jaywalking charge...the Department of Just Us will claim “see,this is what voters were afraid of when they voted Orange Man Bad out of office”.
Of course, the prosecutors MAKE money when they do this.
It will be harder to get a conviction the second time. This is about draining money
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And the indictments in the FBI for doing this sh!t???
The defendants should file charges in return personally against the prosecutors. Let’s turn it back on them and see how they like it.
They are guilty for trying this during Trump time.
Is this double jeopardy?
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