A federal judge has ruled on a crucial matter affecting the government's sedition trial against five members of the Proud Boys: Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Dominic Pezzola, Zachary Rehl and Enrique Tarrio.
All face the genuine prospect of a lengthy prison sentence.
The Proud Boys played a significant role in the run-up to the events of Jan. 6 and during the U.S. Capitol riot.
However, the most important trial from that day has moved at a snail's pace, hindered by delays and legal posturing. (RELATED: Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 Exposé – Partly True and Also Kinda Dumb)
Controversy erupted again last week after defense attorneys stumbled across thousands of inadvertently disclosed internal FBI messages sent and received by FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller about the government's case against their clients.
The defense received the messages after the prosecution shared a file of exchanges from the FBI's secure messaging system. Prosecutors argued some messages shouldn't have been disclosed.
Ultimately, the judge disagreed with the defense lawyers' assessment of the FBI messages, calling their revelation “much ado about nothing.”
If the prosecution provided an accurate explanation, he added.
Prosecutors submitted a filing on Sunday saying the defense's allegations of serious misconduct could confuse the jury and form an unfair prejudice against the government.
The judge agreed and proceeded to block the questioning of witnesses related to the messages. The ruling will stand unless the defense successfully challenges the Justice Department's clarification. (RELATED: Ex-Liberal Icon Apologizes After Tucker Questions J6 Narrative)
The Daily Wire has more:
The messages caused a stir last week after defense attorneys began questioning a witness about several FBI messages that prosecutors say contain classified information, according to POLITICO. Defense attorneys allege that prosecutors may be attempting to hide information damaging to their case behind classification barriers.
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The unintentional disclosure happened when prosecutors shared a file of messages retrieved from the FBI's secure messaging system regarding prosecutors' questioning of Miller. Prosecutors received the messages first from Miller, who obtained the messages through a filter on the FBI system; however, the filter also picked up some messages that prosecutors say are not pertinent to the case and should not have been released. Those messages were accidentally left in “hidden” rows of an Excel spreadsheet turned over to defense attorneys.
The disclosure came to light Thursday after Nordean's defense attorney, Nicholas Smith, began cross-examining Miller about the messages. Prosecutors objected, and U.S. District Court Judge Tim Kelly dismissed the jury until prosecutors and the defense could work out the disagreement.
The messages, defense attorneys say, suggest serious misconduct by the FBI related to the case against the Proud Boys defendants. Defense attorneys pointed to a conversation Miller and another agent had about one defendant's decision to fight the government's charges. Miller had learned about the defendant's decision from messages the defendant, Rehl, had sent to his attorney, which defense attorneys say suggests a breach of attorney-client privilege.
Other conversations included an FBI agent discussing the strength of the prosecution's case, an agent who asked to have his name omitted from a report after meeting with a confidential source and an FBI “boss” ordering an agent to destroy “338 items of evidence.”
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Hard to fight the justice system when the one side, the prosectors are on also have the judge standing on that side of justice scale, isn’t it?
Time to have a lawsuit naming the FBI breaching attorney – client privilege, isn’t it? Of course, that means nothing to the DOJ because they did that in the MaraLago raid.
Could it also mean that the FBI through No Such Agency had bugged defense attorneys and their clients?
Apply to all J6 inmates OK
Release all of them now.
Another corrupt judge! I’m so surprised! Not! A democrat judge doing what he does best rigged a trial because of a pay off. Justice system is no more with traitorous judges and lawyers.
Request a change of venue out of D.C. and in front of a red state federal court.
…so the Judge is a bought-n-Paid for Globalist traitor as well as everyone else in the government.
So you believe even ALL our flyers, soldiers, and sailors are bought and paid for traitors as defined in 18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason?
How about our mailmen, SS and Medicare workers, VA doctors and nurses, and all Congressional critters, etc.?
Many of the leaders of our flyers, soldiers, and sailors are corrupt wokies who have attained their high military rank by sucking up to corrupt politicians. The rank and file are powerless to make decisions or influence policy, so are not responsible for the treason and stupidity being forced upon them.
What else do you expect from a D.C. liberal judge.
The judge needs removed period with his certificate pulled. ALL evidence should be revealed.
Ain’t gonna happen.
Here we go again! The judges making rules and laws from the bench ALL in favor of the FRAUD, CORRUPT government and its puppet agencies. These types of judges are a disgrace to this country and its citizens.
Only the court should decide what is evidence, not the prosecutors, not the media.
Nothing unusual here. The FBI will use any underhanded tactics against political enemies inclu8ding destroying exculpatory evidence. The FBI and DOJ are both irredeemably corrupt and should both be abolished and the leaders prosecuted. Federal judges do as they are ordered and are equally corrupt.
Justice will have to wait until January 2025. And it will arrive with a vengeance.
Judge Needs a Lengthy Prison Sentance!
Have our FBI and CIA learned from the KGB? ‘It is perilous to study the devices of the Enemy.’ — Gandalf, speaking of Saruman