animaleyz
I don’t know if this is what’s you’re referring to, but:
In the initial arraignment hearing, the judge was given two different indictment papers. One had three counts with one rejected by the grand jury, the second had the two counts that were approved and the third removed. The judge was like, “what the hell is this?” Halligan said the two count sheet was the correct paper.
Figuring out what happened has been a process, but today we found out:
After one count was rejected by the grand jury, Halligan had the second indictment printed up, but only showed it to the foreperson and one other juror.
That is not legal. The whole grand jury had to vote again to return a valid indictment.
The judge decided not to immediately throw it out, but it’s coming in the next week or so.
Complete incompetence. And another strike against her in a potential disbarment hearing.
This hearing was supposed to be about vindictive prosecution, which they did talk about also. The judge asked if there was a memo from the previous US Attorney (who got fired) that declined to prosecute Comey. The prosecutor hemmed and hawed then said he was ordered not to answer that question.
If such a document exists (there is reporting that is does), the government is required to produce it to defense as part of discovery. Another potential crime by the DOJ.
