re: Judge orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to James Comey, cites ‘disturbing patte

quote:

---

Crimes were determined en route to the trial.

---

Where did we see that before? Why didn't the judges do the same for Trump when they knew what the prosecutors were doing?

quote:

---

Where did we see that before?

---

Both with Trump and Comey

quote:

---

Why didn't the judges do the same for Trump

---

partisanship probably.

Just because they did a scummy thing, doesn't make the other side morally justified in doing a scummy thing

Just makes both scummy

quote:

---

Even in GA, the investigation was started in search of a crime,

---

Well the underlying predicate crimes were out in the open.

Now RICO cases are always tricky. That's why all the hopium that the DOJ can find one that spans 9 years is a stretch.

Trump's problem was a lot of idiots, charlatans, and people acting clever in response to the 2020 election doing pretty much exactly you're describing. The difference is the 2020 Truthers could never find the evidence, despite their puffery, which is what ensnared them in lots of the purported illegality they were then accused of committing. It didn't take much "looking" once the idiots performed their farcical LARPing

On second thought. I don't think Patel's comments are important really. Not smart, but all of these technicalities. SFP is going to love all of this...

Hank may even return to gloat, Comey will skate.

quote:

---

A federal judge ordered prosecutors Monday to turn over secret grand jury records in the case against former FBI Director James Comey to his legal team Monday, calling out “a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that … potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.”

In a 24-page ruling, US Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick accused the feds of flouting attorney-client privilege to secure an indictment of President Trump’s longtime nemesis, ripped interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan for “fundamental misstatements of the law” to the panel, and flagged unexplained irregularities in the grand jury transcript.

Specifically, the judge laid out a timeline of the day the two-count indictment of Comey was handed up, noting that Halligan claimed to the court that she last had contact with the grand jury at 4:28 p.m., while the panelists were deliberating.

A federal judge ordered prosecutors to turn over all grand jury materials in the case against former FBI Director James Comey to his legal team on Monday.

However, the grand jury rejected one additional count against the former top lawman, necessitating prosecutors to draw up a second indictment for Halligan to sign.

The interim US attorney’s declaration stated that she learned that one count had been rejected at 6:40 p.m. and the hearing on the return of the indictment began seven minutes later.

“The short time span between the moment the prosecutor learned that the grand jury rejected one count in the original indictment and the time the prosecutor appeared in court to return the second indictment could not have been sufficient to draft the second indictment, sign the second indictment, present it to the grand jury, provide legal instructions to the grand jury, and give them an opportunity to deliberate and render a decision on the new indictment,” Fitzpatrick said.

“If the prosecutor is mistaken about the time she received notification of the grand jury’s vote on the original indictment, and this procedure did take place, then the transcript and audio recording provided to the Court are incomplete,” he added. “If this procedure did not take place, then the Court is in uncharted legal territory in that the indictment returned in open court was not the same charging document presented to and deliberated upon by the grand jury … and provides another genuine issue the defense may raise to challenge the manner in which the government obtained the indictment.”

Fitzpatrick also took issue with investigators’ handling of four search warrants executed by the FBI in 2019 and 2020 as part of the bureau’s Arctic Haze probe into how classified information from the bureau was leaked to news outlets.

The warrants targeted Comey’s friend and lawyer Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School, and sought information from his iPhone, iPad, iCloud account and hard drive.

Fitzpatrick found that while the government allowed Columbia, Richman and his attorney to identify privileged content in what they found, they “never engaged Mr. Comey in this process even though it knew that Mr. Richman represented Mr. Comey as his attorney as of May 9, 2017, and three of the four Richman Warrants authorized the government to search Mr. Richman’s devices through May 30, 2017, 21 days after an attorney-client relationship had been formed.”

The judge also noted that while the FBI “was permitted to search all of the Richman materials” they could only seize evidence of theft of government property and retention of national security information, “both markedly different offenses than those with which Mr. Comey is currently charged.”

LINK

---

quote:

---

The judge has already stated that the prosecution decided on indictment before presenting the case to the grand jury

---

The judge is wrong. We can all read his testimony (even you can read it). It is crystal clear he made false statements. I don’t think even you can deny that. You’re relying on procedural issues and claiming they are substantive. It’s disingenuous at best….and flat out deceptive at worst. You should be ashamed.


Can you please point us to your post criticizing someone running in “get Trump?”

Of course you can’t. You’re a pathetic person.

quote:

---

, someone her has enough sense and integrity to state some truth.

---

There are several of us.

They call us Libertarian trash and my favorite "panicans"

Ron Paul would be labeled such. That is where the GOP is right now.

Apparently those of us that said bombing Iran was wrong, meant we were panicking, or some such.

quote:

---

his corrupt biding.

---

You should read the transcript of his testimony before proving to the board you’re a complete moron. People that post with hubris from a place of complete ignorance are so fascinating.

Would love to see the statement. Was this a magistrate or a judge’s ruling?

Page 16 of the Magistrate Memorandum Opinion