Thread by @ZoeTillman

Hello from Judge John Bates' virtual courtroom, where J6 defendant Federico Klein (former Trump admin appointee) has a status hearing. Prev: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

Govt says they've made a plea offer but no response yet from Klein and his lawyer

Klein's lawyer Stanley Woodward says they're concerned about volume and pace of discovery turned over so far, incl. whether feds pulled any evidence from Klein's phone and extent of videos from that day

Woodward says plea offer extended this week is not "reasonable" but they're open to negotiations. He says he wants the case to move along, says Klein's pretrial release conditions are v restrictive and requests to go for a run or get gas during the recent shortage were denied

Govt defends amount of discovery turned over so far, says cache includes new video and disputes that they have to turn over absolutely everything publicly available from Jan. 6 if they don't intend to rely on it at trial

The lawyers spar a bit over how to characterize the nature/amount of evidence the govt has turned over so far, and Bates cuts it off, saying it doesn't sound like he's actually being asked to rule on anything right now, and asks both sides to try to work this out among themselves

Bates indicates he's becoming less amenable to continuing to give the govt extensions, saying it doesn't sound like they're that much farther along in turning over evidence than at the last hearing. But in the meantime will push it out another ~30 days (govt asked for 30-60 days)

It appears pretrial services believes Klein violated his release conditions and wants him on home incarceration instead of home detention, but the filings are under seal and so far we're not getting details about happened, besides the fact that something happened on May 29

Bates says Klein "did something that is wholly inconsistent with the conditions that he is under" and called some sort of "movement" by Klein a "serious violation," but also says there isn't evidence of a pattern of behavior

Ah Bates offers some more details — Klein called in to say he had been drinking and wasn't in a condition to be able to get home and asked to stay somewhere else overnight, he was told no he could not, but got a longer window to get himself home

Bates isn't going to change Klein's pretrial release conditions for now, but warns it'll be bad for him if something else happens: "You should have known better than to put yourself in that circumstance"

That's a wrap. Also a good reminder that home detention is different from home incarceration — former allows a defendant to leave home for things like work, education, religious services, doc appts. The latter requires preapproval for everything but court and medical necessity