Posted on 05/14/2020 2:43:51 PM PDT by Beave Meister
The federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s criminal prosecution has directed the law firm that Flynn fired to reappear as an interested party in the controversial proceeding. On Thursday, that firm complied by filing a notice of appearance.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the clerk of the court to “add Covington & Burling LLP (‘Covington’) as an interested party in this matter and directed counsel for Covington to file a notice of appearance on behalf of Covington as an interested party.” John E. Hall, the chair of Covington Burling’s global litigation practice, submitted the filing.
The order follows the highly controversial decision by the DOJ last week to file a motion to drop the criminal charges against Flynn, despite the retired lieutenant general having already pleaded guilty to lying to agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The DOJ now believes the Flynn case was an inappropriate setup.
Flynn was initially represented by Covington & Burling and attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony when he pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI. However, he fired his legal team soon thereafter and replaced it with a new of team of attorneys led by conservative lawyer Sidney Powell. The new attorneys immediately accused Flynn’s previous legal team of ineffective assistance of counsel.
“Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea (and later failure to withdraw it) was the result of the ineffective assistance of counsel provided by his former lawyers, who were in the grip of intractable conflicts of interest, and severely prejudiced him,” Flynn’s current legal team wrote in a January motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
“That pernicious conflict infected and prejudiced his defense until he retained new counsel in 2019.”
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Bizarre.
So what do they think they can accomplish by these latest shenanigans?
Franz Kafka was a piker compared to this. The only thing left for Flynn to do is turn into a cockroach....
Will H0lder represent the firm?
An honest judge would’ve slapped these lawyers down hard a year ago
The federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s criminal prosecution has directed the law firm that Flynn fired to reappear as an interested party in the controversial proceeding. On Thursday, that firm complied by filing a notice of appearance.
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IMHO, that law firm was complicit with the Mueller probe aligned former prosecutors in subornation of perjury and conspiracy to suborn perjury while placing under extreme duress to commit perjury.
Go after THEM judge, they were NOT under duress while Flynn was!
Charge him with Perjury because he is lying and his old lawyers aren’t, duh!
Annnnd that’s why the only judges dems love are the ones that are bought and paid for.....
Yes of course
The judge wants to get Flynn on a perjury charge, so he could do contempt of court.
WTF?!
Eric Holder’s law firm wants to jump in on the fun and claim the guilty plea was warranted?!
Covering their butts is the goal here. Who would want to hire them as it stands?
So they now going to appear for the prosecution????
The judge wants to give them a chance to avoid disbarment and a bankrupting civil suit.
Doesn’t anyone have oversight over this puke???
The deep state definitely has something on this judge or he totally lost his marbles.
The dems make sure of it
Since they no longer represent Flynn are they appearing as witnesses? That would violate Attorney client priveledge. Bizarre.
I'm not sure what this ruling attempts to accomplish but someone behind the curtain wants to crush Flynn.
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