Judge Throws The Book At 69-Year-Old Tina Peters For Minor Infraction Because She Believes The 2020 Election Was Stolen
The judge clearly went overboard and illegally focused on Tina Peters’ constitutionally protected viewpoint about election theft.The judge clearly went overboard and illegally focused on Tina Peters’ constitutionally protected viewpoint about election theft.Reversal of FATE: Steve Baker’s update on January 6 prisoners is ‘a good sign’
January 6 started as a chance for Trump supporters to innocently protest and quickly turned into a day that would change their lives forever.
Now, however, things might be taking a turn for the better.
“One J-sixer is seeing a reversal of fate,” Jill Savage of “Blaze New Tonight” explains.
“John Strand is actually one of the more, let’s call it, infamous stories, certainly one of the more high-profile cases of all the January 6 defendants,” Steve Baker tells Savage.
Strand was friend and bodyguard of Simone Gold — a doctor and attorney who was the deplatformed founder of the Frontline American Doctors. Gold had been accused of “disinformation” for recommending alternative therapies that were not part of what Baker calls the “approved narrative” regarding COVID-19.
Gold was scheduled to speak on January 6 at one of the six legally permitted events scheduled on the Capitol property that day.
“By the time they got to the Capitol, everything had gone to hell in a handbasket, and so there was nothing but chaos by the time they arrived. The breaches had already taken place. John Strand and Simone Gold did not participate in violence, they did not participate in breaching the Capitol building whatsoever,” Baker explains.
However, their fatal flaw was going inside the Capitol peacefully.
“She actually decided to deliver her prepared remarks there in the Rotunda. She climbed up on the Eisenhower statue, with John standing guard beside her, she delivered her remarks there in the great Rotunda of the Capitol, and then they peacefully left, just as so many other hundreds and thousands of people did,” Baker says.
Both Strand and Gold were “handed that infamous 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding felony.”
The felony carried up to 20 years of imprisonment.
Gold ended up taking a plea deal and pled down to a single misdemeanor. Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced her to 60 days in prison.
“John Strand decided he was not going to take this lying down, that he was going to be a warrior, and he, despite the odds being horribly stacked against him, he was going to go to trial and he did that,” Baker explains.
He was convicted on all counts, and he was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
“Now what’s happening is that because of the Supreme Court’s overturning the 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding charge against 355 defendants, him being one of those,” Baker says, “they’re shortening their sentences or letting them go.”
If they haven’t gone to trial yet, they’re not charging them with it.
“It’s especially a good sign because the Department of Justice has already announced that they want to figure out how to continue with that charge,” Baker explains. “But the point being, is it appears that the judges are pushing back against the DOJ.”
“We’ll take this as a good sign,” he adds.
Cops release from jail 77-year-old Oakland homeowner they say fatally shot break-in suspect
Police released from jail a 77-year-old Oakland homeowner they said fatally shot a break-in suspect last week.
The homeowner had been held without bail since early Tuesday on suspicion of murder; he was released from jail Thursday evening without facing any charges, the Mercury News reported, citing Alameda County jail records.
'You have a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate yourself. And the fact that you exercise that right doesn’t seem like a reasonable basis to arrest somebody.'
Police said the homeowner killed one of three people who were trying to break into his home while wielding a crowbar and a replica gun, the paper said.
Jail records said the homeowner was scheduled for a Thursday morning arraignment, but Mercury News reported that the hearing never happened. An Alameda County Sheriff’s spokesperson told the paper the homeowner was released due to a lack of charges in the case.
County prosecutors had a deadline to file charges, Mercury News said, adding that the sheriff's office generally doesn't hold suspects for longer than two days when they haven't been formally charged.
However, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office said in a Friday morning statement that “the case is still under investigation by the Oakland Police Department," the paper said.
At a Wednesday press conference, acting deputy chief Frederick Shavies said the homeowner “did not provide a statement” when homicide investigators questioned him, after which he was arrested, Mercury News said.
“Absent any sort of statement, if ‘A’ shoots ‘B’ without an explanation, we can only go with what we have,” Shavies said, according to the paper. “All we know is an individual lost his life.”
Legal experts told Mercury News that the homeowner’s arrest and the police department's reason for jailing him are concerning.
“I find it very troubling that the police would arrest someone because they didn’t make a statement,” Mathew Martinez, an East Bay defense attorney who spent 13 years as a prosecutor in Merced County, told the paper. “You have a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate yourself. And the fact that you exercise that right doesn’t seem like a reasonable basis to arrest somebody.”
Daniel Horowitz, a Lafayette-based defense attorney, told Mercury News that it's "really incredible to arrest someone, just simply because there’s someone dead in your yard. If there’s just somebody on your property, and you have a gun and you shoot them, that’s not sufficient to arrest them. It just isn’t.”
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'It’s really just a guess': Suspects in homicide and capital murder cases go 'missing' from Arkansas county jail
Police in Arkansas have started a manhunt for two suspects who were found to be mysteriously missing when jail officials took attendance.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is looking for 22-year-old Noah Rush and 23-year-old Jatonia Bryant, who reportedly "may have escaped within the last 48 hours" from the W.C. “Dub” Brassell Detention Center, the sheriff's office said in a press release.
Roush was being detained on probable cause for residential burglary and theft of property and was also a suspect in a homicide.
At the same time, Bryant was being detained on probable cause for capital murder.
"We had a head count this morning and they were missing, but it’s really just a guess, as we don’t know at what point they were not in the facility," Jefferson County Major John Bean told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. "We have two K-9 units working," the policeman added.
Authorities also noted that since "both young men are from the area," police are looking into past residences and recent acquaintances. State officials believe the two men went missing in the 48 hours prior to the discovery that they were gone.
The sheriff's office was asked how the men may have conducted their escape but replied that the information was part of the ongoing investigation and a detail that the office didn't want to make public.
In the official press release, Major Bean asked for citizens with any information regarding "anyone who may have assisted [the suspects] in their escape" to call local authorities.
"All efforts are being made at this moment to apprehend these suspects," the sheriff’s office continued. "Both individuals are to be considered dangerous and should only be approached law enforcement personnel," the press release added.
The sheriff's office also wanted to inform residents that the communication center would be calling locals about the escapees and that some of the calls could show up as potential phone scams by accident.
The W.C. Brassell Detention Center is the same facility that saw five deputies hospitalized after an accidental exposure to fentanyl last month. In late December 2023, the deputies responded to a jail cell where a detainee was allegedly smoking a piece of paper that may have been dipped in a liquid form of a drug.
Two of the deputies went unconscious, another developed chest pain, and others had a headache and developed a rash on their faces.
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These are Trump's chances to RUN and WIN from prison
It’s not looking good for Joe Biden.
Former president Donald Trump is now leading the sitting president in polls in nearly every battleground state.
The fact remains that the Democrats will stop at nothing to see Trump imprisoned — but that doesn’t mean he won’t win.
According to the polls, the former president now has 22% support among African-Americans, which would be a modern-day first for a Republican. He had only 8% support from the same demographic in 2020.
In 2020, Trump’s Hispanic support was at 36%. He now has 42% in a poll of Hispanic swing state voters.
“Generally speaking, it’s showing that the multicultural base of the Democratic party is eroding in a major way,” Stu Burguiere tells Glenn Beck and Pat Gray. He notes that inflation, among other things, has hit these populations quite hard.
Trump is leading in these polls even as he’s testifying in the New York trial for the fraud case brought against him.
In the same poll, only 6% of swing state voters would change their minds if Trump was convicted and sent to jail.
“It’s going to be a difficult task to achieve to be elected from prison,” Stu says.
Glenn notes that if he were to go to jail, it might actually help his case for president.
“It might actually help him in the African-American community. Not because they want, you know, somebody who’s, you know, a felon in. They see injustice,” Glenn says.
He explains that the African-American community would be more likely to get behind him in prison, because many of them have been “used and abused by the system and thrown into prison.”
“They connect with the oppression,” Stu agrees.
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