With Last Charges Against J20 Protesters Dropped, Defendants Seek Accountability for Prosecutors
Federal prosecutors sought to imprison hundreds for the J20 protests, but won no jury convictions. Now defendants are seeking accountability.
Federal prosecutors sought to imprison hundreds for the J20 protests, but won no jury convictions. Now defendants are seeking accountability.
The Washington Post got lucky. If James O'Keefe's operative had used a fake name, the newspaper would have had a harder time exposing them.
In the case of the Inauguration Day protesters, the prosecution has relied on police witnesses with apparent proclivities toward extreme politics.
Among those who still face decades in prison, a journalist has filed a motion for the court to dismiss his charges.
A lawsuit accused the infamous Project Veritas of infiltrating a union and illegally gathering proprietary information.
Prosecutors have a novel theory of group liability where nearly 200 face prison for the acts of a tiny fraction of demonstrators.
How did ”multiple sources” all innocently feed the same false information to multiple media outlets? The refusal of CNN and MSNBC to say only compounds the damage they have caused.
The lawsuit accuses O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas, with breaking local and federal wiretap laws and running afoul of other statutes.
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