Posted on 08/02/2022 5:43:17 PM PDT by bitt
The alleged main Russian source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier has claimed anti-Russian bias could stop him from getting a fair trial.
Igor Danchenko’s lawyer, Danny Onorato, raised the issue during a pretrial hearing on Monday. The lawyer backed up the claim, noting there are a number of Ukrainian flags around Alexandria, Virginia, amid Russia's invasion, which started in February.
The attorney suggested the defense team may try to find a way to address that issue in the questionnaire for jurors during the selection process in the trial, brought by special counsel John Durham.
Danchenko was charged last year with five counts of making false statements to the FBI. Durham has claimed the comments were about the information he provided to Steele for the dossier. The Department of Justice's watchdog said FBI interviews with Danchenko “raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting” and concluded Danchenko undermined Steele’s unfounded claims of a “well-developed conspiracy” between former President Donald Trump and Russia.
The Russia-born lawyer has lived and worked in the Washington, D.C., area for many years and allegedly relied on a network of Russian contacts but undermined key collusion claims when interviewed by the FBI. According to Durham’s false statements charges, he anonymously sourced a fabricated claim about Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort to longtime Hillary Clinton ally Chuck Dolan, who spent many years, including 2016, doing work for Russian businesses and the Russian government.
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He should empanel some FReepers. There are several who have no anti-Russia bias at all; in fact, quite the opposite.
Yup. I used the noun, instead of the verb. Grammatically wrong.
He should have stayed in Russia.
To empanel is to select a group of people for a jury. If you’re empaneled, you’re part of a jury. Congratulations. Jury duty is one of those things all adults have to do as members of a democracy — show up in court to possibly be a member of a jury in a trial. When you’re added to a jury, you’re empaneled.
Empanel - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
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The truth may prevent a fair trial.
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Wait 5 more years
That always works
Had he committed the same crimes against Putin in Russia, he would fall out of a window well before any silly trial.
Variant
a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
Move the Trial to Florida or Texas then.
“Had he committed the same crimes against Putin in Russia, he would fall out of a window well before any silly trial.”
That or come down suddenly with some strange neurological disease.
Kind of like color and colour, or favor and favour. I grew up with that, because my mother was English. The nuns would give me grief in school.
Seeing as how this is a federal case we should go by the spelling in federal code spelling of impanel.
“Seeing as how this is a federal case we should go by the spelling in federal code spelling of impanel.”
If it makes you happy.
Since it was all fiction, are they afraid a jury won’t understand that it wasn’t really Russian information, but fiction made from whole cloth to look like Russian sources? If they think this was real Russian info from real Russians and a jury thinks real Russians would be offended, we’re surrounded by really dumb jurors, or jurors from Wash DC - sorry to be redundant.
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