Prosecutors hid mountains of evidence in trial of Trump inauguration protesters

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Prosecutors hid mountains of evidence in trial of Trump inauguration protesters

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Prosecutors hid mountains of evidence in trial of Trump inauguration protesters

A dramatic failure to honor the basic principles of criminal law could put a sudden end to the long-suffering First Amendment case.

ALAN PYKE
MAY 31, 2018, 8:59 AM

Federal prosecutors hid scores of videos from the hundreds of anti-Trump demonstrators they charged with serious felonies in an unprecedented crackdown on Inauguration Day protests, defense lawyers alleged in an overnight filing Wednesday.

The new accusations exacerbate an existing crisis for prosecutors, who already admitted last week to hiding one 55-minute video and misrepresented edits they made to another video. That initial screw-up, known to lawyers as a Brady violation, already jeopardized the case.

But that initial, single Brady violation is actually part of a much broader pattern of evidence-concealing, the lawyers now say. The government has concealed another 69 separate recordings — three audio files and 66 videos — of planning meetings for the Inauguration protests known as #DisruptJ20, defense lawyers say in the motion.

[mikeysnot]

1. and the tax payers will pay

the settlements and the offenders will get off with a slap.

[shanny]

2. Which offenders? The accused or the prosecution?

'Cause imo property damage is bad but prosecutorial misconduct is way worse.

[RandomAccess]

3. I'm so glad -- this was bogus as hell from the beginning

I'm glad at the resolution -- but also alarmed at the fact that prosecutors did this.