Thread by @innercitypress

OK - back to DDC #insurrectionBlues case of US v. Robert Morss before Magistrate Judge Harvey. AUSA is hammering away that he was going to leave the country. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below. Previously:

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1415027721558712327

Morss' lawyer: The US is using stills from a video --
[Note: DDC judges have yet to make these videos available to the public, only to a limited groups given the DC OUSA's password to USAfx. This is a scam]
Morss' lawyer: He is in the back, he passed shield back

Morss' lawyer: There are six defendants on this indictment and all but one have been released. All Mr. Morss wanted to attend was a historic event. Yes, it got out of hand.

Morss' lawyer: TRISTAN CHANDLER STEVENS was in the tunnel - and he was released. And the individual named Lee, he was in the front line and threw a lit object, a fire cracker, toward the direction of the police

Morss' lawyer: My client is 28, he got his college degree in December 2020 and got a job. Sure he moved in January - he got a job with a school district, he moved there and signed a lease. Then the FBI came in the early morning hours when he was headed to work

Morss' lawyer: These writings of his the government is putting in, there's no indication of when they were written. He just wanted to be a positive force for his students. You can release him with strict conditions. His mother and father, they are a strong family

Judge Harvey: Have you seen the journal?
Morss' lawyer: I've seen what's in the US's pleading, that all. We have not seen the journal.
AUSA: Defense counsel mentioned us providing the video - we have only given that which is public available. Not the bodyworn

AUSA: Defense counsel misstated the facts about many co-defendants
Judge Harvey: Then restate it. The Circuit in Munchel tells us to compare defendants. Here's your chance, if the record is inaccurate.
AUSA: There is no Lee. It is Judd. He threw a fire cracker.

AUSA: We don't have, for him, the "how to build a militia" entries. Mr Stevens was in the tunnel from 240 to 4 pm. He pushed against the line and used a shield - organized by Mr Morss. We had less evidence of planning, no walkie talkie or plates or kits

AUSA: For Mr. MCCAUGHEY - it's "McCoy," it's often mis-pronounced - we had evidence of planning but no walkie talkies or medical kits, no military training. Two are held, one stole a baton - oh, we should be careful, we don't know that.

Judge Harvey: Any military training?
[It's sounds to some that military service makes it more likely for a defendant to be detained]
AUSA: I came to the office just for this and it still doesn't work.

AUSA: Co-defendant, CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH QUAGLIN, he was released in New Jersey and we appealed it to the Chief Judge. He rented additional rooms in DC, had some association with a self-described Proud Boy. He had a gas mask.

AUSA: Morss only seemed to express remorse when he thought he would be caught. "The ramifications of the 6th are coming down on me."

Judge Harvey: I want to see the videos. Why haven't you provided them?
AUSA: I'll just have to get permission.
[Why are these not public? USAfx to only some does not make the courts public]
AUSA offers clips of the body worn, only stills.

Judge Harvey: The defense says that the publicly available video is inconsistent with what you proffer. I think you should produce the rest.
AUSA: I don't believe it would take long.... By Friday.
Morss' lawyer: Can we get it?

Judge Harvey: Next Tuesday, 4 pm. I aim to rule then. Anything I see should be put on the public docket.
Judge Harvey says the government share video through a "publicly available database."
NOTE: Their USAfx is NOT public. Story soon on InnerCityPress.com