🧵United States v. Cole
NEW Superseding Indictment against Brian J. Cole Jr. adds two additional counts:
-Attempt to Use Weapon of Mass Destruction
-Act of Terrorism While Armed
Cole was already charged with Transport of Explosives and Malicious Attempt to Use Explosives.
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The new filing doesn't add any additional information.
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The Nov 21 and Dec 16 indictments were also light on details. Simply stating what the charges were.
No speaking indictments in this case.
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The information that supports the additional charges can be found on the docket in this filing
Memo in Support of Pretrial Detention
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And this one
Opposition to Motion for Revocation of Pretrial Detention
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Here are the threads of what is happening right now in this case:
-Cole is in jail pending trial; the defense has appealed this.
-Defense has filed a motion to dismiss based on Trump's J6 pardons applying to Cole
-Defense filed a motion for the return of subpoenas related to subjects/POIs of the pipe bomb investigation... and in so doing revealed the identity of three witnesses in the case, their private information, and accused one of the witnesses of being the actual pipe bomber. The filing clearly violated the protective order in this case that the judge issued at the beginning of it, and it's difficult to interpret it as being anything other than a very dirty play. Not a mistake, an intentional dirty play.
-Prosecutors want the defense held in contempt for this egregious violation and have filed a show cause motion.
-The violative filing was public for a short time, and I quickly read it, but it was sealed soon after. There is now a motion by the defense to unseal it, but with some redactions.
-And now there is a 2nd superseding indictment.
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I have playlists covering the happenings in this case on my Rumble and YouTube pages. I'm about to record a couple more now.
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