>Recently released grand jury transcripts show the extreme lengths federal prosecutors went to in order to secure indictments against the "Broadview Six" protesters. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/grand-jury-transcripts-show-skepticism-broadview-six_n_6a29e4f2e4b0a99062fb6929On her second attempt to secure an indictment against a group of protesters who would come to be known as the “Broadview Six,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg kicked out a grand juror who described the case as a “crock of shit,” according to grand jury transcripts released on Tuesday.Prosecutors pursued the case anyway, accusing the group — which included Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh — of blocking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle outside the Broadview detention center during an immigration crackdown in Chicago in late September of last year. On the third attempt, prosecutors secured felony conspiracy charges against all six defendants as well as misdemeanor counts of impeding a federal agent.The case quickly fell apart: Earlier this year, prosecutors dismissed two of the defendants and dropped all felony charges, leaving only the misdemeanors. The case collapsed entirely last month, after a federal judge criticized prosecutors for improperly trying to influence grand jurors and removing those who disagreed with their case.“I have read hundreds, if not thousands, of grand jury transcripts involving prosecutors who are the most junior of prosecutors to several U.S. attorneys who appeared before the grand jury,” U.S. District Judge April Perry said last month after reviewing the transcripts. “I have never seen the types of prosecutorial behavior before a grand jury that I saw in those transcripts.”Those transcripts, released to the public on Tuesday, show the extreme lengths to which federal prosecutors went to indict the Broadview Six, even after grand jurors repeatedly expressed skepticism about the case.
After failing to obtain indictments on their first try, prosecutors came back a week later, prompting a grand juror to ask if they had “unlimited tries.”“Like you keep coming back as many times as you want?” the grand juror asked.“Well, I don’t think we have to worry about that. I think we’re going to be just fine,” Mecklenburg responded.“I think the saying is the second time is the charm,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Skiba added.“I hope you don’t have your mind made up already that I’m going to need more tries,” Mecklenburg said.Asked by a grand juror if prosecutors were “actually presenting any new facts or just a different viewpoint on your side,” Mecklenburg said she was “feeling the skepticism already.”“Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth,” the prosecutor said.“I — no,” the grand juror responded.“OK. Then you have to go,” Mecklenburg said.“I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is,” the grand juror said, before being excused. The second time, it turned out, was not the charm for the government. Even with the removal of the critical grand juror, the panel did not return an indictment.So prosecutors came back the following week. This time, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros made an unusual statement, urging anyone who “cannot set aside their personal feelings” on immigration cases to raise their hands, according to a report summarizing his remarks. During that third session, Mecklenburg acknowledged improperly speaking to two grand jurors outside of official proceedings.Eventually, grand jurors returned a true bill and charged all six defendants.
The Broadview Six case is part of a pattern by the Trump Department of Justice of pursuing aggressive felony charges against people who oppose its mass deportation and detention agenda. Although jurors have repeatedly declined to convict when these cases go to trial, the experience of being prosecuted causes tremendous physical, emotional and financial stress. Collectively, the members of the Broadview Six owe more than $1 million in legal fees, Abughazaleh told the Guardian.“That’s not a happy ending, it’s just an ending,” she said. “It’s not justice, but it is a win.”
>>1519147Why can’t both go to jail if they deserve it?!
>>1519149domestic terrorists deserve to be procecuted. Leftists kept going with the angle oh there's bad actors on our side but we need to ignore them and consolidate to stop ornage hitler. So this is just the script flipped back onto them, there's bad actors on the republicans but the democrat leftists are infinitely more vile and should be exterminated we can fix whatever party issues after that
here come the esl shills
>>1519150Because they don’t.
>>1519154Now you're persecuting MIGA chuds. If they're not allowed to be racists, they'll have to confront the fact that they're mediocre space fillers who are definitively worse than the minorities they're programmed to demonize
>>1519150Better question: Why isn't the prosecutor in jail for lying to a grand jury and attempting to rig a case by dismissing jurors? Oh right we don't live in a land of laws.
>>1519147This is why I could never be a judge, I'd be referring to them as crocks of shit the entire time after reading that.
>>1519152Did you know intimidating a grand jury is an actual felony? Not "I feel in my heart of hearts they need to be prosecuted." No, taking two grand jurors aside, intimidating them, and then dismissing several more constitutes a felony under the law. His bar should at least be revoked. You don't get to have infinite do-overs and if that involves telling jurors to prosecute or else, that's simply railroading a trial. They may as well skip it if they are just going to keep doing this until they get results they want.
>>1519158The judge should, under his jurisdiction, be referring that prosecutor to the bar with the recommendation of revocation without the possibility of ever practicing law again. Especially after he tried to talk to jurors in private after intimidating them in-court. The fact he allowed this to go on, allowed them to resubmit multiple times, and didn't declare a mistrial means he is complicit. You couldn't be a judge not because you're not impartial, it's because you're not on Trump and Epstein's speeddial like he likely is.
>>1519159Oh wow I guess we should go arrest everyone who rioted over the rittenhouse verdict then, I specifically remember I believe it was the cousin of george floyd trying to incite people to dox and assault the jury if it was anything other then life in prison online.
>>1519161can you skip to the part where you bring up weird sexual fantasies, that's my favorite part of your meltdowns
>>1519161>I specifically remember I believe it was
>>1519161idk what that has to do with a prosecutor intimidating a juror. You're talking some randos on the street vs a Prosecutor with a license, a bar, and his official business name who took an Oath. The prosecutor doesn't get to claim "Oh I'm just a retard who doesn't know dick about the law", he signed papers and got a license informing the jury that he is entirely responsible for his own actions. Sorry cunt, you don't get to play both sides on this one.
>>1519154Little Girls can get away Scott Free with illegal citizenship because they’re cute, right?! Go eat a taco, leftist.
>>1519174This is schizophrenia territory of which the likes no actual person has seen.Those little girls with illegal citizenship aren't comparable to a federal prosecutor intimidating jurors.
>>1519147>article tries to portray jury selection process as being a sign that the public is supportive of those protests>author: Jessica Schulbergkek
>>1519176so you're pro iran war and anti jewish? you must have quite the gymnasium brain
>>1519176It doesn’t.
>>1519162prison rape for you and your supporters, the girls are too ugly and old so they get sold to zoos and trannies.>>1519164https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1-jSFqLqAg&disable_polymer=1Yes i specifically remember who I believe is but i didn't verify.Which I am now and it was true now you owe me for forcing me to link to some fucking goddamn grifter site because you cunts don't have media that covers relevant news when it incriminates leftists cunts
>>1519167>its fine when we do it>here's why my situation is fine but yours isn't>ignore that he's effectively a public figure with hundreds of thousands of viewers and inciting violence against jurors because he doesn't like the verdictTry again loser, you should genuinely get lynched for this, gotta love how you supported corruption but when its not in your favor you keep making excuses on why it was fine then but not now.Ahh yes asking questions is juror intimidation
>>1519184i feel sorry for your mother
>>1519176Jury selection doesn't happen in the middle of presenting things to a grand jury. The entire point of a grand jury is to try and filter out retarded prosecutors bringing retarded cases. If the grand jury tells them no, then it's doing its job as intended.
>>1519183Woosh.
>>1519187I don't feel sorry for urs for bring such a wretched human being into the world
>>1519190that doesn't even make sense unless you prefer wretchedness, esl shill
>>1519191I wish ur dad was epstein
good thing esl shill never found a genie
>>1519188>Jury selection doesn't happen in the middle of presenting things to a grand jury.Have you ever been on a jury? They literally ask you how you feel about XYZ and you're supposed to answer truthfully. If you have a bias, they throw you out.
>>1519196>If you have a bias, they throw you out.Not believing the bullshit coming out of your mouth isn't bias.
>>1519207They specifically try to remove jurors that feel strongly about the case by telling them details about the case. You would know this if you were American.
>>1519209Not in the during or after presenting. The idea that not believing the case a prosecutor is presenting is grounds for removal is nonsensical.
>>1519209There is a difference between "I won't believe one side" and "I don't believe one side".
>>1519207Did you know ur not allowed to watch or read reports about the case you're a jury of? you literally suppose to make your decision based solely off the information and presentation of the defense and crown. If ur reason for not believing them is "I hate trump" then damn right you should be arrested.>>1519210jurors have gotten arrested for using their position as a juror to advocate for one party or the other and bias the rest of the pool. Its not just grounds for removal attempting to interfere with other jurors is grounds to be arrested.
>>1519147>More news from the Epstein class.I think I'll pass.
>>1519212>Did you know ur not allowed to watch or read reports about the case you're a jury of? you literally suppose to make your decision based solely off the information and presentation of the defense and crown. If ur reason for not believing them is "I hate trump" then damn right you should be arrested.>crownLolAlso, they came to their decision based off the case the prosecution was presenting, not outside information, dipshit.>jurors have gotten arrested for using their position as a juror to advocate for one party or the other and bias the rest of the pool.When they've come to that position corruptly, lol. Jurors are supposed to debate verdicts. Which is why you can't fucking remove one just because they believe they've come to a decision about a verdict as a result of hearing the fucking case. Doing so poisons the integrity of the deliberations.You're essentially arguing that any juror that becomes convinced by the evidence they are shown before they sit down to debate how to vote must be removed from a case. That's fucking insane. Showing convincing evidence would result in mistrials. All someone would have to do to destroy a case against them is go on the stand and admit their guilt.
>>1519215their "decision" was I hate trump lalala who cares I won't ever vote to convict because TRUMP BAD.>becomes convinced by the evidence they are shown before they sit down to debate how to vote must be removed from a case.difference between debating and actively letting your bias take over and going lalala they work for trump Me hate trump, hey you if you don't vote no to convictions then you're a nazi baby eating murderer!!!.You have no 2 choices in maga america, guilty for the traitors or a retrial there are no alternatives just like biden's democrat kangaroo courts. It is the way of life
>>1519215>Also, they came to their decision based off the case the prosecution was presenting, not outside information, dipshit.“Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth,” the prosecutor said.“I — no,” the grand juror responded.Sure thatsa whata happened.
>>1519215Insulting the prosecution and being clearly biased on the basis of outside politics and as a result refusing to even look at the evidence with an unbias mind is grounds for jury tampering. They should be given jailtime. They're explicitly asked whether they can be unbiased under oath and they lied. Your argument assumes the juror is acting in good faith and not lying to the judge when they said they can view the trial with an unbiased mind.No not just jailtime they should be lynched for violating the repute of the court of justice. The death penalty I sentence thee.-1 for the democrats aww yeah -destiny
>>1519219>Sure thatsa whata happened.That wasn't during voir dire. That was during a meeting after the prosecutor had presented their fucking case.>>1519222>clearly biased on the basis of outside politicsWat? They literally said their decision was based on the case the prosecutor presented the week before.>I hope you don't have your mind made up already that I'm going to need more tries.That's the statement that prompted the juror's talk about the case being a crock of shit. The prosecutor fucking failed to sway the juror and threw them out to improve their odds with the jury.
>>1519212We have a "Crown" to present cases to in the US?First day shill-botting?
>>1519222> I think aggression is a sign of strength. I think this because I'm a weak beta bitch who has never had any strength, and my frustration with being a powerless and wholly inadequate male manifests in violent fantasies. If I were even slightly smarter I would be able to argue my position using words; but then if I had two brain cells to rub together I wouldn't be a fucking miga faggot.>By the way, some random guy committed a crime, so all democrats are violent psychopathic murderers; that's a bad thing, and I definitely, absolutely have self-awareness.
>>1519241>...all democrats are violent psychopathic murderers; that's a bad thing, and I definitely, absolutely have [no] self-awareness.Finally someone speaks the truth.
Don't feed the esl shill
>>1519224>they removed the jurors who refused to be unbiased and BEFORE the trial even begangreat low IQ brainlet who doesn't know how jury selection works.
>>15192521. This was grand jury proceedings, not a trial2. This was after the case had been presented3. You didn't read the fucking article, shithead
>>1519196I was on a grand jury for six months and have been on multiple petite juries. I don't know what kind of fucked up selection process they use but they send me a card saying I've been chosen for jury every two or three months like clockwork even when I'm not eligible due to having recently been on one already. Grand jury only asks if you know any of the people they mention as the cases come in, and only asks you to decide if it's more likely than not that the crime has been committed based on the evidence that the prosecutors show you, with no input from the defense. Then it goes on to a trial where the standard shoots up to "beyond a reasonable doubt" and the defense gets to ask hard questions and show their own evidence.
>>1519214This isn't the NYpost or pro trump.
>>1519272I don't need to, to know ur a dipshit domestic terrorist
You can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, that’s how bad the prosecution was at presenting it and apparently they were also just making shit up.
>>1519290I'm okay with you thinking I'm a terrorist given what you think a patriot looks like. If anything I take it as a compliment.
>>1519290uh oh migger melty, gonna storm a capital building again and spend 4 years in the slammer?
>>1519294This is the same DoJ that literally actually failed to indict a sandwich when they tried to charge that guy for throwing a sub at ICE or whoever.
>>1519303gotta take over a part of the city in protest and spend a month holed up shooting at people including other like minded domestic terrorists? please i hope you're nextCHOP boy
>>1519303the answer was yes, more impotent violence directed at people who never hurt them
>>1519304lol I forgot about that
>>1519241> so all democrats are violent psychopathic murderersWhat are your feelings on charlie kirk, you disingenuous faggot?What that thing you fags say all the time? MAGA are nazis? And killing nazis is a part of America's third creation myth, right?Go off queen. Tell us more about how you're being improperly characterized. Nigger.
>>1519314it's too bad that he got killed by a mormon whose maga parents clearly didn't raise him right
>>1519315the neck-ed truth!
>>1519314It doesn't surprise me at all that you cherry pick quotes, or that you're so fucking retarded you could only process six words, that's par for the miga moron course.CK? I don't know, I don't think about stupid racist faggots unless I'm on this board. What do you think of David Depape? Must think it's awful what he did to Nancy and Paul, else you'd be a projecting miga faggot.>What that thing you fags say all the time? MAGA are nazis? No you stupid faggot, nazis are a specific extinct political party in german, and not jerking yourself off for defeating them and the rest of the reds is how you know your party died a long time ago. Your side does have neo-nazis, but that's not all of you. That's just a small, slightly abnormally racist portion of the miga population.You're FACISTS, you stupid bitch. Your president called for the death of democratic lawmakers, and is using the law to silence the media and attack political opponents. He literally meets the dictionary definition of facism.Nigger? What a weird way for you to sign off. Or were you just thinking of your favorite kind of cock for after this?
>>1519315The funny thing is he was even more right wing than kirk.This is a big reason why that whole thing fell off.
>>1519366Man. Why do I come here to deal with you drugged out loons and your stupid bullshit?
>>1519382because you're esl shill, duh
