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A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Justice Department could not use a contractor to organize grand jury materials relating to the more than 500 defendants who have been charged in the January 6 Capitol riot.

The evidence is largely in the form of social media posts, videos, and emails. The Justice Department agreed to pay Deloitte Financial Advisory Services $6.1 million to set up a database containing the evidence gathered by the FBI in their investigation. The database would be available to both the prosecution and the defendants in order to satisfy the requirement that all “exculpatory” evidence be given to the defense.
 
 

The government was going to give Deloitte access to sensitive grand jury information, however. The judge ruled that Deloitte was not a government entity and was not entitled to view the secret information.

Politico:

In a 54-page decision, Washington-based U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell rejected the government’s arguments that the contractor’s staff would qualify as the equivalent of government employees under the secrecy provisions of grand jury rules. She also said prosecutors had failed to demonstrate that there was a “particularized need” to give Deloitte’s personnel access to the grand jury materials.

“The term ‘government personnel’ is best construed, in accord with the bulk of the district court case law, as including only employees of public governmental entities,” wrote Howell, who oversees grand jury matters as the D.C.-based court’s chief judge.

 

“Deloitte, a private firm contracted by the government on a non-exclusive basis, is a private rather than a public governmental entity, and its staff are employees of the firm rather than the government.” Howell added, the grand jury secrecy rule “thus does not allow disclosure of grand jury matters to Deloitte and its employees.”

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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/07/17/federal-judge-throws-a-monkey-wrench-into-capitol-riot-prosecutions-n1462546

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  • We the People have every right to keep political tryants in line when they cheat, commit fraudulent acts and lie to us!! Sooner or later the Communist will get theirs! It's getting way too far out of line with American tradition!!

  • Well, good for the Judge, but the question is, WHY didn't he inform the DOJ that they are illegally incarcerating non-violent citizens who did NOTHING wrong, according to Constitutional LAW! They should ALL be released, ALL charges vacated, and compensation paid for their lost work and legal fees. THEN, everyone involved in this Kangaroo Kourt, needs to be charged with False Arrest and Imprisonment, from Pelosi , right down to the Capital Police.

  • No matter what any judge rules, all evidence by prosecutors will have been altered. They've had too much time to pay people off, threaten witnesses & manipulate all truth. 

  • Any exculpatory evidence discovered in an investigation by the Prosecution is supposed to be given to the defense...  The responsibility to ensure exculpatory evidence is surfaced remains with the prosecutor, not the defense.  The defense simply doesn't have the resources to sift through mountains of social media posts to discover all the exculpatory evidence possible... the Prosecution is to refer the defense to such material or to take it under advisement before proceeding to trial.

    However, these trials are not about JUSTICE they are PUNITIVE... the politicization of the courts to punish dissident political behavior... by financially and mentally destroying the lives of those held without bail and being subjected to the serious expense of mounting a criminal defense in federal court.  This entire fiasco is just one more reason the general public has lost all confidence in the Federal Government.

  • More subtle point in this for me is -
     
    Since when do you see the Miranda rights anywhere (for USA citizens) -  prior to using social media?????
     
    Seems the FBI thinks anything you say WILL be used against you.... 
    • The legal doctrine for outlawing Self-incrimination has become nearly useless... beginning with the advent of fingerprints, expanding to DNA evidence, and now with the advent of mountains of digital evidence being accessed by criminal authorities the theory outlawing self-incrimination is effectively gone...  We should all know that the SELECTIVE EDITING OF STATEMENTS on social media can easily be used to present a false picture of what the author actually meant, or was ATTEMPTING to state.  Statements made on social media are often the result of emotional incitement and often do not clearly represent the author's intent and true beliefs.  In addition, what one said a month or years ago may not be the position they currently support... 

      Using social media content as proof of anything is reckless and dangerous... unless corroborated by other sources and hard evidence demonstrating the individual intended or acted upon the statement in a criminal manner.  

       

  • The democommienazi's doing all they can to subvert our Constitution. ALL of them belong in prison and then measured for a short rope, tall tree or lead...for sedition and treason!

    • fckin A

       

  • The "{Government" feels it has the RIGHT to do whatever it wants to "American Citizens" no matter what the LAW says, while allowing ILLEGALS to enter our country, many with the Help of "THE GOVERNMENT" to infiltrate our cities and states all in the name of a Power Grab to control us. Time to get back to America being a Lawful, Constitutional Country, NOT A THIRD WORLDD COUNTRY CONTROLLED BY DICTATORS. WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEIR SOCIALIST, MARXIST AGENDA!

    • Well...unless overturned..the Patriot  Act gives these commies the right...it is unConstitutional and should have been ruled so!

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