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Governor hasn’t ruled out reassigning state trooper case to attorney general

  • ericas
  • July 18, 2024
  • 2 min read

Gov. Tim Walz said this week he remained open to reassigning the case against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan to Attorney General Keith Ellison.Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged Londregan with second degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting of Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop last summer. The trooper's attorney says Moriarty ignored her office's own expert witness, who said the use of deadly force was justified. “I'm not a lawyer myself, but as a layman on this, why would you not listen to a use-of-force expert? Why wouldn't that be central to something you would do?” Walz…

Ashleigh Merchant blasts Fani Willis on Megyn Kelly’s show

  • ericas
  • July 16, 2024
  • 5 min read

The Georgia criminal defense attorney who alleged an “improper” relationship between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade called out the Fulton County District Attorney over a speech she made claiming “Jesus” told her to prosecute Trump. Ashleigh Merchant, who filed a bombshell motion alleging Willis' relationship with Wade, whom she appointed special prosecutor on the case, appeared on Megyn Kelly's show Tuesday where she told the host that she “still [hasn’t] gotten over the church remarks.” “When someone says that Jesus himself told them to prosecute this case, how do you defend against that?… That's insane. I've never dealt with that……

Pro-Trump lawyer arrested on warrant after court hearing in separate case on Dominion leaks

  • ericas
  • July 12, 2024
  • 4 min read

A lawyer representing Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems was arrested after a status hearing in Washington, DC, where he acknowledged in court disseminating confidential documents from the voting machine company to law enforcement.A judge in Michigan, where Stefanie Lambert is also facing criminal charges for allegedly tampering with voting machines, had issued an arrest warrant for the attorney. She is being charged with being a fugitive from justice for failing to show up for a hearing on March 7, police in Michigan said, but declined to elaborate further. The US Marshals confirmed…