Concealed carrier who killed 2 with 1 shot at Detroit Lions fan tailgate acted in self-defense, won't be charged: Prosecutor



A Michigan prosecutor said a concealed carrier who killed two people with one shot at a Detroit Lions fan tailgate Sunday acted in self-defense and won't be charged.

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Cellphone video captured a fight at the Eastern Market during which the assailant, Jalen Welch, allegedly pulled a gun and threatened a 40-year-old man, WJBK-TV reported. That 40-year-old, a legal concealed pistol owner, fatally wounded Welch with one shot through his head, the station said — and that same shot also fatally wounded innocent bystander RayShawn Palmer, who also was hit in the head.

'My client is very pleased he is not being charged with a crime; it was agonizing sitting in jail for three days awaiting the decision.'

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy called the shooting at act of lawful self-defense, WJBK said, adding that Palmer only tried to be the peacemaker.

"In this case the shooter was not involved with the physical altercation, or any crime, when Mr. Welch pulled out his weapon and threatened him with deadly force," part of Worthy's statement reads, the station noted. "It is only then that the shooter drew his weapon and fired one-time striking Mr. Welch, and unfortunately striking Mr. Palmer. A thorough review of the facts and evidence shows that the shooter acted in lawful self-defense. The shooting was justified. There is insufficient evidence to charge the shooter with any crime."

The shooter's attorney told WJBK in a statement: "My client is very pleased he is not being charged with a crime; it was agonizing sitting in jail for three days awaiting the decision. He is dealing with a lot of emotions. He feels terrible for the family of the bystander and wishes to extend his condolences, but he is grateful to return to his family. His right to exercise to protect his life and others is absolute. He did nothing to forfeit that right."

Palmer's family is heartbroken over his death and angry that no charges are being filed against the shooter.

"This is unbelievable that an individual shoots someone — even though he had a CPL — in an environment like this," Jermaine Little, Palmer's brother, told the station. "It could have been a 5-year-old. Unfortunately it was my brother, and so my whole family is here. We are grieving. We are hurt, and we want some answers."

Little added to WJBK, "Our brother’s gone. This is an individual that wanted to give back, did give back, loved his family, was not a violent person, loved to dance. Just wanted to entertain and for this to happen, for trying to stop something that was happening, it’s unacceptable."

Palmer’s family also told the station they will fight the no-charges ruling.

"We’re not going to give up," Little noted to WJBK, adding that "if we got to get out here every day, if we got to post things, if we got to march — whatever we got to do. We just want some answers. Give us some answers. ..."

You can view a video report here about the incident.

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In Michigan’s Bluest Cities, Election Complaints Will Only Be Investigated If Leftist Prosecutors Feel Like It

A new law strips the bipartisan Board of State Canvassers of power to investigate fraud, delegating the task to partisan attorneys.

More bad news for Fani Willis: Disqualification is back on the menu and state investigators are drilling deep



Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not only running for re-election but ostensibly running away from accountability over her various alleged improprieties. If the last several days have provided any indication, then Willis may be headed for a stumble.

Friday

"This is really messing up my business," said Willis.

The Georgia Senate Special Committee that was approved in January to investigate allegations of misconduct on Willis' part began drilling deeper Friday into the Democrat's use of taxpayer funds. The Washington Examiner indicated that there were various signs in the over four-hour hearing that lawmakers are determined to fully understand the Fulton County District Attorney Office's expenditures and prosecution of Trump.

This penetrating scrutiny appears to have struck a nerve with Willis, who told local news, "Isn't it interesting when we got a bunch of African American DAs, now we need a daddy to tell us what to do?"

"This is really messing up my business," continued Willis. "They can look all they want."

The committee appears keen to shift from looking to listening.

Republican state Sen. Bill Cowswet told WSB-TV that the special committee will subpoena the Democratic DA should she fail to appear voluntarily and explain herself.

Monday

On Monday, Willis indicated that — just as she didn't bother to show up to debate her political opponent last month — she may similarly attempt to ghost the state Senate committee.

"First of all, I don't even think they have the authority to subpoena me," said Willis. "But they need to learn the law."

Willis added, "I will not appear to anything that is unlawful, and I have not broken the law in any way. I’ve said it, you know, I’ll say it amongst these leaders, I’m sorry folks get pissed off that everybody gets treated equally."

Wednesday

On Wednesday, the Court of Appeals for the State of Georgia put the possibility of Willis' disqualification from former President Donald Trump's election interference case back on the table.

Willis, who has described herself as the "face of the feminist movement," has been scrutinized for months over accusations of "systematic misconduct" and various other improprieties.

Blaze News previously reported that Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, filed a Jan. 8 motion to disqualify, claiming Willis was ethically compromised by her "improper, clandestine personal relationship" with Nathan Wade.

Willis hired Wade the day after he filed for divorce from his wife. Contrary to the DA's suggestion in court, their romantic relationship allegedly preceded the appointment by at least several months.

In the months that followed, Willis was targeted with additional disqualification motions accusing her of prejudicing potential jurors with racially charged commentary, conflict of interest, misusing public monies, coordinating with the Biden White House, giving Wade preferential treatment, and of possibly running afoul of the federal racketeering statute.

The effort to oust Willis from the case came to a head on March 15 when Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, also running for re-election, ruled that the Democrat could continue overseeing the case so long as Wade resigned his post as special prosecutor.

Wade bowed out, but the defense was not satisfied — particularly since the judge acknowledged Willis' "unprofessional manner" during the evidentiary hearing, her "bad choices," her "tremendous lapse in judgment," her "legally improper" remarks, and the prosecutions encumbrance "by an appearance of impropriety."

McAfee permitted Trump and several of his co-defendants to appeal his ruling, which they did in late March.

The appeals court granted Trump's application for interlocutory appeal this week, meaning it will take up McAfee's ruling — a move the Associated Press suggested will likely delay Trump's case beyond the November election. After all, whoever loses the case could ask the Georgia Supreme Court to decide Willis' fate.

Professor Ryan Goodman, former special counsel to the general counsel of the Pentagon, alternatively suggested that the revitalized disqualification battle "might not delay matters," citing McAfee's suggestion in his order granting the petition that the "Court intends to continue addressing the many other unrelated pending pretrial motions, regardless of whether the petition is granted."

Unless Trump requests and gets a stay, the Georgia appeals court considering his effort to disqualify DA Fani Willis might not delay matters.\n\nTrial Judge McAfee in his order granting petition to appeal: "The Court intends to continue addressing the many other unrelated pending\u2026
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Thursday

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee appears to also be closing in on Willis. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) launched an inquiry into the alleged collusion between Willis and the Jan. 6 Committee in December 2023.

On Thursday, Jordan asked Nathan Wade to appear for an interview and to produce various documents pertaining to his former employment with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.

"There are serious concerns about your role in the politically motivated prosecution initiated by Ms. Willis against President Donald J. Trump. You have reportedly 'profit[ed] significantly' from M. Willis's prosecution, with unsealed court filings alleging that you have been paid 'almost seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) [from the FCDAO] since May of 2022 alone,'" Jordan noted in his letter to Wade.

"The committee understands that Ms. Willis reportedly compensated you and financed her politically motivated prosecution using a mixture of taxpayer funds, possibly including part of the $14.6 million in federal grant funds that her office received from the Department of Justice between 2020 and 2023," added Jordan.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution indicated that Wade's attorney could not be reached for comment but that he previously claimed he had done nothing wrong.

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Filings: Jack Smith Tampered With Evidence In Get-Trump Classified Documents Case

Special Counsel Jack Smith admitted federal prosecutors mishandled evidence in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case.
Prosecutor Letitia James Faces Trump's Legal Defense

Prosecutor Letitia James Faces Trump's Legal Defense

Did Fani Willis Hire Her Unqualified Lover To Prosecute Trump At Taxpayers’ Expense?

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Prosecutor who tried jailing distraught dad whose daughter was raped by transvestite may have been voted out of office



Virginians appear to have successfully voted Loudoun County's George Soros-backed prosecutor out of office.

Unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections indicate that Commonwealth Attorney Buta Biberaj lost the election to Republican challenger Bob Anderson by over 1,000 votes, with well over 95% of the votes counted. Biberaj, however, refuses to concede.

The Democratic commonwealth attorney claimed Wednesday that there are around 2,000 uncounted votes that will be tallied over the next couple of days. Accordingly, she will wait to concede or seek a recount. Anderson's lead is presently within the margin necessary for a recount, reported the Loudoun Times-Mirror.

"We tell people that their vote counts," said Biberaj. "So we have to make sure that we count their votes."

On Wednesday, Anderson wrote on X, "There is no current path to victory for Buta Biberaj and we look forward to waiting for the due process to run course. I am confident the results will remain the same, and look forward to serving as your next Commonwealth's Attorney."

This loss will prove a great upset for Biberaj when confirmed, given that she reportedly out-raised Anderson by almost a 10-to-1 margin, taking in nearly $680,000 compared to Anderson's $69,000.

Anderson served as commonwealth's attorney twenty years ago but figured the county could once again benefit from "stability and a strong commitment to community safety."

Biberaj told Patch at the outset of her re-election campaign that she was a "visionary" with a diverse office who, if reelected, would "work with the legislature to pass a ban on assault rifles, gun lock laws, and background checks." The 59-year-old Democrat also claimed that she focuses "prosecutions on violent offenses so that victims are not retraumatized by the process."

Despite her alleged aversion to compounding trauma, Blaze News previously reported that Biberaj's office recommended that a male transvestite who raped a ninth-grade girl at Stone Bridge High School in 2021 be released with an ankle monitor and enrolled in a different school. Upon his release, the rapist is said to have sexually assaulted another child in a classroom.

After an apparent cover-up by the school, the first victim's father, Scott Smith, went to a school board meeting on June 22, 2021, seeking answers. After daring to raise his voice, Smith was tackled by police, detained, then convicted of disorderly convict.

Biberaj reportedly intended to prosecute the case and ultimately have Scott jailed but was thrown off in September 2022 for a lack of impartiality by her Republican predecessor turned Circuit Court Judge James Plowman.

In another instance of trauma unnecessarily compounded, Biberaj's office agreed to the release of a man charged with brutally assaulting, strangling, and abducting his wife, Regina Redman Lollobrigido. After his release, he allegedly went on to savage and kill Regina Lollobrigido with a hammer.

In addition to working to get criminals off, Biberaj also has worked with them. In 2021, her office hired a registered sex offender, convicted of a child pornography charge, as a paralegal.

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New evidence TEARS APART Biden's claim that he had Ukrainian prosecutor FIRED over corruption



President Biden’s Ukraine corruption lies are starting to unravel.

Glenn Beck warns that this means it’s time to peacefully stand up and “make sure that your voices are heard in a chorus all over the country.”

“It looks like fascism is coming, and it’s gonna come faster and faster because the Biden thing is falling apart,” he adds.

Biden’s story had been that he threatened to withhold a loan to Ukraine only because the prosecutor, Shokin, was not meeting anti-corruption standards.

“This is now provable lies on multiple levels,” Glenn says, noting that we now know that it was around two weeks before Biden told his story that his son was in a Burisma meeting talking about how that same prosecutor was snooping into Burisma and asking questions about Hunter.

“Within two weeks this incident happens where he goes and he says, ‘I want this guy fired,’” Glenn adds.

Documents report that the State Department had defended Shokin, saying that Biden’s claims were not true.

Now, there’s new evidence.

“We have evidence from the EU, where the EU concluded Shokin had met benchmarks on anti-corruption reforms. In fact, it’s pretty glowing what they write about him,” Glenn says.

“Remember,” he continues, “this narrative came out because what did Donald Trump do? Donald Trump said ‘Hey,’ he calls up the president in Ukraine, ‘I want you to find out what’s going on because there is corruption with Biden and I want you to look into it.’ He knew this was happening.”

Democrats called this election interference.

“That’s what the press sold you,” Glenn says, adding that “eventually, as we did our homework on this during the trial, we laid it all out on a huge chalkboard and said Biden is doing exactly what he’s saying that Trump was doing.”

“And this whole firing of Shokin smells really bad,” he adds.


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Will THIS little-known legal defense strategy RESCUE Trump?



As his four criminal cases get closer to trial, former President Donald Trump could likely use some help.

And Mark Levin claims a certain legal defense strategy could be just what rescues him.

This legal defense strategy is called an anti-suit injunction, which could cease litigation being brought in D.C.

According to Levin, an anti-suit injunction is “when a judge issues an order telling the prosecution or another party, the plaintiff, to cease from prosecuting their case until the case in her courtroom is completed. After that, they can pursue their case.”

In this instance, it’s crucially important for several reasons.

The first reason is because the first federal indictments were brought related to the documents case.

“Now the documents case was brought before the wrong grand jury, in the wrong venue in Washington D.C. Why? Because Jack Smith is a sleazeball. Because Merrick Garland is a sleazeball,” Levin explains.

“The special counsel wanted an indictment, and he might not have gotten one in Florida, so he used the D.C. grand jury to do just that,” because otherwise “Trump and the other defendants will have a very strong case of prosecutorial misconduct here and this violates the Department of Justice rules — which it does.”

Levin believes that because of this, Trump’s lawyers should “be bringing a motion over jury misconduct.”

Levin’s second reason applies to what’s happening in Georgia, which is “very critical as well.”

“You have due process procedures in Georgia that mimic what’s in the federal Constitution. But the federal Constitution also applies to what happened in Georgia,” Levin explains.

“It was very weird, wasn’t it? We wake up, we’re told that the president is going to be facing grand jury, possible indictments,” he continues, adding that something really weird happened that morning.

“The indictment with all the charges, 98 pages, had already been posted on the official government website of the clerk of the court.”

That’s when Fani Willis “desperately” rushed through the rest of the process, before indicting him late at night.

“She violated the due process rights of 19 individuals,” which included the former president, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Jenna Ellis.

“Why? Because the grand jury indicted those people based exactly on what was posted that morning. So, the question is, what did that prosecutor tell that grand jury?” Levin asks.


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Will A Little Known Legal Defense Strategy Rescue Trump?

Will A Little Known Legal Defense Strategy Rescue Trump?