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A huge win versus the DOJ/DC cabal.
Shipwreckedcrew is representing a good number of J6 defendants. Please consider donating to his J6 fund.
NB. I have no connection to 'ship' or his fund-raising except that I have made a few donations myself.
Shipwreckedcrew is representing a good number of J6 defendants. Please consider donating to his J6 fund.
NB. I have no connection to 'ship' or his fund-raising except that I have made a few donations myself.
Michael "Whip" Greene, indicted as part of the Government's prosecution of members of the Oath Keeper organization, was sentenced to a term of probation for two years for the misdemeanor violation of having been on the grounds of the US Capitol while it was "restricted" on January 6.
After a five week trial that ended in mid-March, Whip was convicted on that single misdemeanor charge while at the same time being acquitted on three felonies, with the jury being unable to reach a verdict on a fourth felony but suspected of being 10-2 in favor of acquittal on that count as well.
Whip is the only defendant acquitted on all felonies by a DC jury to date.
The DOJ referred to "Whip" as the Oath Keeper "On the Ground Commander" throughout the course of the three trials starting back in September 2022. Whip was a defendant in the third trial.
He was only added to the indictment in the third case after he was contacted by, and agreed to testify as a witness for the defense in the first trial involving Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and others.
This was a subject of a dispute at Whip's trial between the Government and Whip's attorneys, with the DOJ denying that his agreement to testify had anything to do with the decision to indict him.
But the facts are hard to ignore -- Greene was first questioned by the FBI in May 2021, and he provided them all the information he had. In August 2021 he answered questions again, and he gave the FBI his cellular telephone. Yet it was not until June 2022 that he was added to the already existing indictment of the second group of Oath Keepers. All of the information in the indictment was information known to the Government as early as May 2021, but he was never charged until after he agreed to testify for the defense.
Even though he had been indicted on 4 felonies, Whip still testified as a defense witness in the first trial. The jury verdict in that case was "mixed" at best for the Government, with some defendants being acquitted of the most serious charge, "seditious conspiracy", and others -- including Rhodes -- being acquitted of the charge related to "corruptly obstructing" the Congressional vote certification.
Whip's testimony, cutting the legs out from under many of the Gov't claims about the Oath Keepers being involved in a paramilitary operation on Jan 6 was credited as being a likely basis for the jury's mixed verdict.
In the third trial, where Whip was a defendant, the Government focused attention on their claim that Whip was a member of the "Oath Keeper Leadership", including putting him in a line on a large organizational chart created by the Government, with other leaders of the group, including Stewart Rhodes.
But Whip was never a member of the Oath Keepers -- he was hired by the group to provide his experience and expertise in the field of personal and location security, where he held numerous professional certifications and had worked for 20 years after his discharge from the Army after serving as a combat engineer in Iraq.
Whip had been hired by the Oath Keeper organization on previous occasions to perform similar work -- organizing security operations. On January 6 the Oath Keepers had agreed to provide "personal security details" for Roger Stone and Ali Alexander during the events of the day. A third group was to provide similar services for a group of elected officials from Florida, and the group as a whole was to provide security for speaker's stages at the Capitol that afternoon. It was Whip's job to coordinate those activities.
He had no role in the actions taken by members of the group to enter the Capitol building between 2:30 and 3:15, and the Government was unable to prove any communications between him and other members of the group in that time frame. Whip's first face-to-face meeting with members of the group on Jan. 6 came only after the others had entered and then exited the Capitol building. For almost the entire afternoon he was far back in the crowd on the west side of the Capitol watching events play out from a distance.
The costs of defending Whip, including costs of travel and five weeks of accomodations, were covered by contributions to January 6 Legal Defense Fund.
Contributions to the Fund are greatly appreciated, and allow me to continue to take on clients like Whip.
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