With his dramatic release of exclusive video from January 6, Tucker Carlson is taking a radical move in the legal world and possibly compromising many Department of Justice prosecutions. His actions will undoubtedly frighten many parties and have a lasting effect on the course of events.
According to the Washington Examiner, a lawyer defending five of the prisoners from the Jan. 6 case has made a strong statement regarding what appears to be exonerating video that government prosecutors left out of their case. This counsel requested a mistrial when Tucker Carlson broadcast the previously hidden evidence, raising potentially damaging questions about the prosecution’s deliberate omission of material facts.
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Harvey Silverglate, a well-known legal expert who represents Trump attorney John Eastman, said that Chansely’s guilty plea may be overturned using video evidence of Capitol police officers helping him inside the Capitol. Silvergate believes Chansey would most likely be successful in having his plea dismissed.
“It’s not the defense’s fault [the footage] wasn’t turned over,” he added. Roger Roots, another attorney representing a Jan. 6 defendant, claimed the “withheld” footage is evidential proof that capitol police officers invited protestors into the Senate chamber. “This footage is plainly exculpatory; as it establishes that the Senate chamber was never violently breached, and — in fact — was treated respectfully by January 6 protestors,” Roots wrote in a court filing.
“To the extent that protesters entered the chamber, they did so under the supervision of Capitol Police. The Senators on January 6 could have continued proceedings,” Roots added.
Albert Watkins, who had previously defended one of the incident’s key figures, Jacob Chansley, AKA “QAnon Shaman,” wrote a scathing criticism to the Department of Justice for failing to provide footage from the Capitol disturbances.
“What’s deeply troubling is the fact that I have to watch Tucker Carlson to find video footage which the government has but chose not to disclose despite the absolute duty to do so, despite being requested in writing to do so multiple times,” Watkins said Tuesday.
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