Posted on 12/14/2018 7:48:12 PM PST by Moseley
More questions were raised than answered Friday in the Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigation. Most reporting has it wrong.
Judge Emmett Sullivan had ordered Mueller to file FBI interview notes in the prosecution of Michael Flynn. Sullivan is scheduled to decide on a sentence for Flynns guilty plea on December 18 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Muellers office filed a Governments Reply To Defendants Memorandum In Aid Of Sentencing on December 14, 2018. That covering transmittal is pure rhetoric.
As a criminal defense attorney, let me explain that those statements by Mueller attorneys Brandon Van Grack and Zainab Ahmad are spin, essentially a closing argument. These are only the prosecutors opinions. Yet Trump critics like Fox News Shepard Smith were reading that document on air as if it were evidence.
What really counts is two documents that Sullivan ordered the FBI to cough up. Exhibit A and Exhibit B raise serious questions. Both are heavily redacted, but the context of the blacked-out sections suggests that there is no there there.
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That is because they want their version to be the only version.
Sullivan has already had cause to throw this out. He did not do so.
I think he is posturing for optics, not unlike the House investigation RINOs.
I continue to default to the assumption that the DC fix is in until it actually is not.
Maybe but the way that judges do this — and the way that Sullivan has done it before — is to give the prosecution multiple chances and then dismiss the case based on eggregious misconduct.
When Judge Sullivan dismissed the prosecution case against Sen. Stevens, it was based on the prosecution’s REPEATED disobedience with his orders.
So we’ll see.
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