I like what you did there Rock, you left of "Grand" jury. We don't have a anything from the Trial Jury who are the ones that would convict.
The USA (US Attorney) that briefed the Grand Jury present only their side of the case. In the case of United States v. Williams (1992) the SCOTUS ruled that Federal Prosecutors are not required to present exculpatory (let me know if you need that word explained to you) evidence to Grand Juries. They are free to present only the information they want in order to obtain an indictment. In this case they were not required to present Comey's political views of the President, his long and faithful service as a USA and head of the FBI. They were not required to present any information on the etymology of "86", it's meaning and common usage that a ressonable person would know.
In other words the could walk in, say "here is the US Code, '86' means to kill, give me an indictment" and that is it.
They were not required to provide the Grand Jury with:
- The fact Comey was interviewed by the Secret Service, you know the people charged with protecting the President, and they had no problems.
- Comey removed to image, apologized for any confusion but that clearly his INTENT (a critical factor in a conviction) was that Trump be removed from office (which follows the etymology of the term "86) and NOT to kill the President.
- What the process of the investigation was, what it's timeline was, and whether the "investigation" - which supposedly took a year to investigate seashells on a seashore - started after the event OR if it started only after the other federal case was thrown out. A clear indication of vindictive prosecution.
- Evidence of other common usage of the term "86" in the political context such as others using "86" such as politicians calling for "8646" as commercial sales of merchanadize calling for 86'ing other things which of course supports the etymology of the term.
And here is a dirty little secret, I WANT it to go to a trial. Or at least proceed through discovery before it gets laughed out of court. Which means the defense gets mounds of information, they can then make public. Such as...
- Secret Service interviews with Comey from a year ago such as reports, correspondence, emails, etc.
- Video recordings of Secret Service interviews
- Investigatory records from the FBI agents including correspondence, emails, 302 Records, video/audio recordings
- Any communications between the President (or Presidential officials) and the DOJ regarding prosecuting Comey
- Any communications between the senior DOJ officials and the FBI directing the investigation
- Any communications between senior FBI officials and FBI investigating agents
- Any communications between senior DOJ officials and the district US Attorney regarding the case ordering prosecution
- Grand Jury materials and transcripts
- Probably other stuff I'm not thinking about
Get them into the defense hands and put them in the public record.
WW
