JUST IN: Jacob CHANSLEY has filed a motion (via attorney @shipwreckedcrew ) to vacate his sentence and seek discovery about his access to CCTV footage prior to his sentencing.
Filing accuses his previous attorney of ineffective assistance.
The crux is: Prosecutors need to better explain the timing of Chansley’s access to relevant CCTV footage. Chansley’s previous lawyer shouldn’t have let him plead to the most serious charge he faced and stipulate to sentencing enhancements that doubled his potential sentence.
Though Pence wasn’t seen entering or exiting the courthouse, it was clear something big was happening — heightened security was noticeable everywhere, particularly near the grand jury spaces. politico.com/news/2023/04/2…
Pence’s appearance came just hours after an appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s emergency bid to block or limit Pence’s testimony.
HAPPENING NOW: Jurors in the Proud Boys trial have asked to see the stolen police riot shield Pezzola used to smash the Senate window and the megaphone Joe Biggs used to rile up Jan. 6 crowd
Another jury note in Proud Boys trial. Awaiting details…
UPDATE: Jurors have asked about a missing exhibit (which they’ll now get) and wanted a stapler.
HAPPENING NOW: Enrique TARRIO's attorney Nayib Hasan is set to deliver his closing argument. During the opener, Tarrio's other lawyer, Sabino Jauregui, leaned into the idea that Trump was far more culpable for Jan. 6 than the Proud Boys.
And HASAN picks up with that esact point: He points out that Trump said people shoudl "fight like hell" at 12:17pm on Jan. 6. Within 36 minutes, the barricades were breached at the Capitol.
HASAN: "It was Donald Trump’s words. It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th in your amazing and beautiful city."
"It was not Enrique Tarrio. They want to use Enriqeu Tarrio as a scapegoat for Donald Trump and those in power."
Spotted in the courthouse: US Attorney Matthew Graves, possibly here to observe Proud Boys closing arguments
In fact, it’s not just Graves. Large contingent of top DOJ officials now packing the Proud Boys courtroom, including John Crabb, chief of the criminal division, bunch of AUSAs who have tried other big Jan . 6 cases.
DA’s office describes this as a joint motion to dismiss, agreed upon after Judiciary Committee permitted a Bragg attorney to be present for Pomerantz deposition.
HAPPENING NOW: Pezzola is back on the stand and should face cross-examination by around 11 am, one of the most significant moments of long, arduous trial.
Here's how he described his decision to take a riot shield and smash his way into the Capitol.
PEZZOLA admitrs to lying to the FBI during a second interview with them, something he tells jurors today he did because he thought it would help alleviate his conditions of incarceration.
The lie PEZZOLA told: That when Jan.6 rioter Ryan Samsel had his arm around Joe Biggs, Biggs told Samsel he had a gun and urged him to charge the barricades (which Samsel later did).