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Roger Parloff Profile picture
@rparloff
May 9 • 12 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
As part of the govt’s sentencing materials for Oath Keeper founder E. Stewart Rhodes, it has filed 11 remarkable excerpts from a recent interview of Rhodes’ estranged wife, @That_Girl_Tasha . Sounds like AUSA Kathryn Rakoczy did the interview ...
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In this one, @That_Girl_Tasha discusses Rhodes’s alleged paranoia: Even when “Oath Keepers wasn’t much more than a blog ... he was digging tunnels with a backhoe in the backyard of our rental house ... there’d be speakers set up on a trip-wire & spotlights” ...
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[Was he violent?]: @That_Girl_Tasha : “If he was really mad at you he would want to do what he called martial arts training. Which includes sticks and knives with dull blades or edge taped. Don’t know if you can see all the scarring on my arms. ..."
/3
... “Most of these are from over 10 yrs ago. Or he’d keep me pinned down in a chair with sticks or these ‘clubbells,’ they were about 8 pounds each, ... like baseball bats. & he would just hit the chair or the sofa next to my head over and over and over again.”
/4
[Could you suggest mental health treatment?] @That_Girl_Tasha : No ... He would start drawing handguns, waving them around, finger on trigger, round in the chamber [saying] you’re gonna make me kill myself [but] pointing his gun at all of us
/5 bit.ly/42Gz0Jy
[Rhodes as a public speaker] @That_Girl_Tasha : He couldn’t get enough of it. He just could not get enough of the crowd interaction ... Many times we didn’t go home till dawn from an event that started at 6pm."
/6
... @That_Girl_Tasha: “He choked my daughter when she was 14 ... He’d try to make you think you were crazy for thinking it had happened." ...
bit.ly/42ICzPD
/7
... @That_Girl_Tasha: "He’d go on & on with these stories about how women get locked up for mental incompetence & lose their kids permanently ... when they try to divorce lawyers. ...We’d be so afraid to try to get out." bit.ly/42ICzPD
/8
.@That_Girl_Tasha : "He's very much a chameleon. ... he’d talk to people on the phone and pray with them, ‘God bless you,’ and he’d hang up the phone & just say, 'Jesus freaks.”
bit.ly/3BbR2Yq
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.@That_Girl_Tasha : "Stewart will never be someone who was radicalized, but he will radicalize others and he will keep doing that. ... I’m almost positive that he does not even believe the election was stolen. ..."
bit.ly/3HYwkz5
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... "He’s not in this for the politics. he’s in it for the mayhem and the violence." ...
bit.ly/3HYwkz5
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... 'He has made a lifetime study of mind control & crowd control. He does nothing but read books on the subject of trying to get crowds to follow him with his speech patterns ... hand motions & with the types of people he chooses as followers"
bit.ly/3HYwkz5
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May 8
Here's a summary of the sentences (in the far righthand column) the govt is seeking for the first 9 Oath Keepers to be sentenced, including founder Stewart Rhodes. Six of the sentences, if actually imposed, would exceed the longest J6 sentence to date. ...
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ICYMI, the govt's full joint sentencing memo (183 pages) for Stewart Rhodes and eight other Oath Keeper defendants, filed Friday, is here:
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Sentencing dates and times for the five defendants tried in the first OK seditious conspiracy trial are listed in the screengrab below. Rhodes is on 5/25 at 9:30am.
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May 5
A note on the Proud Boys jury. I see that some people are referring to a summary of what's known about the jurors that I provided at the end of this article and alleging bias. But the whole article provides crucial context ... /1
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As I noted in the article, all of the selected jurors & alternates "swore they could put aside anything they’d read or heard before and decide the case solely on the evidence and the law." Defense lawyers raised *no objection* to 8 of the 12 final jurors. ... /2
The key Supreme Court precedent here says that "scarcely any of those best qualified to serve ... will not have formed some impression or opinion as to the merits of the case." Accordingly, it's not required that jurors "be totally ignorant of the facts & issues involved."
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May 4
Judge Kelly now on the bench to address Proud Boys first jury note AFTER the reading of the partial verdict (Jury Note 10 in all).
/1
The note apparently says, among other things, ~All jurors firmly believe that further deliberation will not lead to unanimous verdicts on any of the other counts.~
/2
Oh, sorry, it sounds like they do have some sort of additional partial verdict, and regard themselves as hung on the remaining counts.
/3
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May 4
So, obviously you've heard the headlines. I'll try to fill some stuff in. All four PB leader defs convicted of seditious conspiracy--making 14 convictions of that offense in J6 cases: 10 by juries, 4 by guilty plea. No verdict as to Pezzola, a low-level PB, on that count. /1
The jury reached a verdict on all the top counts except two conspiracy counts relating to Pezzola: seditious conspiracy & conspiracy to obstruct official proceeding. Pezzola convicted of obstructing an official proceeding & consp. to prevent officers from discharging duties.
/2
The jury's inability to reach a Pezzola verdict so far on the top conspiracy counts might reflect that he was a recently inducted PB, not a leader, and didn't even know most defs until their arrests. ...
/3
Read 10 tweets
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May 3
So here's what the Proud Boys hearing was about that was just held beginning at ~9:25am. At 7:28am this morning atty Carmen Hernandez emailed the judge of an obvious typo in the jury form relating to count 4 (conspiracy to prevent officers from discharging their duties). ...
/1
Oddly, at 9:11am the jury sent out a note remarking on the exact same typo, apparently calling it a "typo," also. The judge is going to correct the typo. But atty Hernandez (Rehl) wanted the judge to also take the opportunity to make another change in the form ...
/2
First, here's Jury Note 8 from this morning:
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May 2
Okay, here are the official last two notes. Jury note six is here:
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and Jury Note 7 is here:
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With respect to Note 7, my understanding is that he basically told "You have been instructed on the theories that apply to Count 8. The Court can provide no further clarification."
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