We have a status hearing starting now for former Special Forces soldier Jeffrey McKellop. He's on the line, irate, with his attorney. wusa9.com/article/news/n…
The DOJ says a plea offer remains pending in the case, but they have not had further conversations with McKellop's attorney about that. DOJ is asking for another status hearing in 30 days.
McKellop has asked Judge Carl Nichols to reconsider his detention status. DOJ says they oppose that, and also that he can't meet the conditions required to reopen a detention hearing anyway.
DOJ says if there was a new bond hearing they would likely ask the officers McKellop is charged with assaulting if they would like to speak, which they would be allowed to do so under the Crime Victims' Rights Act. Judge Nichols wants a written response from the DOJ.
Short hearing. Jeffrey McKellop will be back in court on October 25 at 3 p.m. He's requested the hearing be in person, as relatives will be flying in from California to attend it.
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A bit of drama in the dockets of brothers and Jan. 6 defendants Matthew and Gregory Purdy. Last year, they and their co-defendant, Robert Turner, all decided to fire their lawyers and be represented by a single, new attorney. Judge Lamberth was skeptical but allowed it...
Then, last month, the new attorney asked for a continuance of their April 22 trial date — noting, among other reasons, that she had applied for a judgeship in Alabama. I was not at the hearing but Judge Lamberth was, I gather, not impressed. Motion denied.
Cut to last week, when two of the defendants — having, it seems, decided Judge Lamberth is now ill-disposed toward their counsel — fired the new attorney and got newer attorneys.
Now those attorneys, w/ less than a month left to go before trial, are seeking continuances.
Former Trump WH trade adviser Peter Navarro's sentencing hearing is set to begin shortly. DOJ is seeking 6 months in jail for Navarro defying a subpoena from the January 6th Committee. google.com/amp/s/www.wusa…
Like most, Peter Navarro's sentencing hearing begins with arguments over enhancements and credits. Navarro wants 2 levels of credit for acceptance of responsibility. Judge Mehta seems dubious.
Mehta: “I haven’t heard a word of contrition from Dr. Navarro since this case began.”
Navarro's attorney, Stanley Woodward, says Navarro wasn't playing "smoke and mirrors" with the January 6th Committee but was only doing what he thought he had to as a former WH adviser. He says he only went to trial to preserve a constitutional argument. Judge Mehta disagrees.
The plaintiffs are showing a video deposition w/ Mary Frances Watson, a former police lieutenant who was the chief investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State's Investigations Division during the 2020 election.
Watson says she reviewed footage from State Farm Arena where Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were working. She says it shows "election workers doing their normal process.
Q: "So it doesn’t show hidden suitcases of ballots?”
Rudy Giuliani's civil trial is starting. He's sitting at the defense table with his attorney, Joseph Sibley, as Judge Howell instructs the jury.
She tells them Giuliani has already been found liable for defamation. Their job is only to determine damages. wusa9.com/article/news/n…
Judge Howell is instructing the jury on the consequences of his failure to provide discovery. They must assume he:
- Intentionally tried to hide financial information to deflate his worth
- Intentionally tried to hide info about his podcast to deflate the reach of his words
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are presumed to be harmed by Rudy Giuliani's defamatory claims, so they don't have to provide any evidence that they were harmed.
They will have to show they suffered damages in emotional distress for one of the counts.
I mean, I guess you can play dumb and say it was your law clerk who wrote this so it shouldn't reflect on the sincerity of your client's guilty plea... but Judge Lamberth is the absolute last judge on the D.C. bench I'd want to play that game with in a Jan. 6 case.
The prosecutor in Ryan Nichols' case predicted this kind of thing and so asked Judge Lamberth to ask Nichols and attorney Joe McBride directly if they were contesting any of the facts in his plea deal.
Here are the facts Ryan Nichols and his attorney agreed to in his plea deal and declined to offer any changes to during his hearing earlier this month.
Sullivan's contention during his direct examination this morning was that he was a journalist on Jan. 6 who said inflammatory things to blend into the crowd as a way of protecting himself. Direct exam was fairly short, probably less than an hour between yesterday and today.
AUSA Rebekah Lederer has been hammering Sullivan on cross-examination about whether his claims stand up to scrutiny.
She played a 12/14/2020 video where he says, point blank, he doesn't make any money off filming and doesn't consider himself a journalist.