Posted on 04/06/2022 3:58:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One of the most prominent points made by supporters of the political prisoners arrested following the mostly peaceful protest at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, is that tons of video evidence shows law enforcement officers ushering in the protesters. If these people were breaking the law, doesn’t that mean the police were breaking it with them by pulling down the barricades, opening the doors, and ushering them in? Are we not supposed to listen to the instructions of law enforcement?
This premise was tested with glorious results for January 6 defendant Matthew Martin. According to Sean Davis:
This acknowledgement of reality — that it’s not a crime to walk through a door held open for you by police — is fatal to the corrupt government’s entire J6 narrative. It’s also why DOJ has criminally abused defendants to force plea deals: DOJ knows its cases are garbage.
Davis may be onto something. The Department of Justice has been gung ho with charges and arrests and have claimed to be applying the full force of the law against people they have dubbed “insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorists.” But they’ve been just as quick to quietly make plea deals with as many as possible. This isn’t the standard practice of clearing a docket through negotiations. They have always seemed to be in a very big rush to get as many as possible to admit wrongdoing even if it meant far lighter sentences.
Was it all a con because they knew they had no real cases against most of the defendants?
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Yes. It’s totalitarianism. Political persecution.
Years and huge amounts of money to prosecute misdemeanors.
Sadly, if a defendant is in the court of a Rat Judge, this “roadmap” will be completely ineffective along with any other defense. In those courts, these cases are guilty not until proven innocent, just guilty. Also know as Star Chambers or Kangaroo Courts.
You remember how right wingers use to say, it’s coming to America soon.
Well, it has come and here we are...seemingly powerless to do anything about it..?
Correct.
I worked in DC. It would be like being judged by a jury of Jerry Springer guests.
“... Are we not supposed to listen to the instructions of law enforcement?”
Reliance on instructions from a government official is one of the cases in which ignorance of the law IS an excuse in the NY Penal Code.
Drew the golden ticket in a Trump judge who is actually qualified to be a judge. You would trade that away for a jury of DC ferals?
This should never reach a jury. When there’s no triable issue of facts, summary judgment is called for. And getting let in by the Capitol Police is grounds for at least partial summary judgment, and dismissal provided one behaved lawfully while in the Capitol.
Can he sue for false incarceration now ?
Bench trial with a Trump appointed judge is the best shot as DC jurors are by definition biased communists .
“Was it all a con because they knew they had no real cases against most of the defendants?”
Yep, it’s the classic DA strategy to threaten a really long sentence to scare the defendants into accept a plea deal.
It was a bench trial before a judge who had found another defendant guilty in a different trial. So it’s hard to see a legal tactic in this.
In our legal system, the process is half the punishment, or in this case, all of the punishment!
And now there is standing precedent.
That must be a rhetorical question. :)
Thank. God.
One. ONE decent judge in DC. They are known to be the guardians of Democrats there. I mean it is really, really bad, according to lawyers.
Years and years of the Uniparty rubber stamping lib justices in DC. Elsewhere, it’s not as bad, as often a Senator will axe lunatics behind the scenes, for their own territories. But DC has nobody from our side lookinout for Patriots.
It’s also high profile area, the highest, so judges go out of their way to loudly hammer deplorables.
So good for this one!
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