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2024-07-21 Government Corruption

Crusading J6 attorney pays huge price for defending pro-Trump patriots

[World Net Daily] WASHINGTON — The turn of a few key events may change the fate of the Jan. 6 political prisoners now staring down the dark tunnel of a decade or more in prison for seditious conspiracy.

While the re-election of Donald Trump in November would almost guarantee the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers a presidential pardon, a series of recent Supreme Court rulings may likewise end up cutting time off the lengthy prison sentences they were handed for what many consider no greater crime than "wrongthink."

On June 28, SCOTUS ruled the Justice Department's use of 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), in conjunction with the most serious criminal charges leveled against former President Donald Trump and an ever-growing number of Jan. 6 defendants, is unconstitutional.

The statute says an offender who "(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."

The trouble is, in all of American history the DoJ had never used this statute to prosecute demonstrators, even when protests descended into skirmishes, riots, arson, assault, death or worse. Prosecutors, in effect, invented previously non-existent crimes, as if they were the U.S. Congress.

The Supreme Court's ruling should put a precipitous halt to the government's over-prosecutorial adventurism of nonviolent offenders whose only crime amounts to misdemeanor trespassing, and consequently vacating the convictions of possibly more than a hundred J6ers.

But as criminal defense and civil rights attorney Norm Pattis drafts the appeal for the Proud Boys who were handed the lengthiest prison sentences of all the J6 protesters, he is preparing to face defiant federal prosecutors who remain hellbent on circumventing the Constitution and the Supreme Court so they can bury their political opposition when they return to the courtroom.

"It appears the Justice Department is just digging in, pretending nothing ever happened, and baiting the defendants to raise the 1512 Obstruction issues on appeal on the theory that the DOJ may be able to salvage those convictions," Pattis told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-21 09:25|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 The Supreme Court's ruling should put a precipitous halt to the government's over-prosecutorial adventurism of nonviolent offenders whose only crime amounts to misdemeanor trespassing, and consequently vacating the convictions of possibly more than a hundred J6ers.

I don't look for this to happen until the onerous, Deep State facilitator Merrick Garland vacates the DoJ.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-21 09:34|| 2024-07-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 -in chains.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-21 10:39|| 2024-07-21 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I would rather have them leave by the gallows

Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-21 13:16|| 2024-07-21 13:16|| Front Page Top

#4 In chains TO the gallows, along with about 4/5 of the rest of Biden's cabinet and 90% of the "undersecretaries" and other indignitaries.

Posted by Old Patriot 2024-07-21 17:34|| 2024-07-21 17:34|| Front Page Top

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