A member of the Proud Boys that prosecutors allege led others in the right-wing street gang into battle on Jan. 6 was ordered released Wednesday pending trial.
Canada has them classified as a terrorist organization.
Maybe you all need to talk?
“By the end of the hearing, the judge seemed peeved at the lack of information providing the basis for that and other claims.”
Does the DOJ have the evidence and they are holding it or are they still trying to get their act together since the new admin is in place and collect their evidence?
Proud Boy handed a right he attempted to take away from we the people.
Judge Howell seems like a good egg.
We need Merrick Garland confirmed & installed at the head of this mess … ASAP!
Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell was appointed to the District Court on December 27, 2010. She received her B.A., with honors in Philosophy, in 1978 from Bryn Mawr College and her J.D. in 1983 from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Following law school, Chief Judge Howell served as a law clerk to Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise in the District of New Jersey and, subsequently, as a litigation associate at the law firm of Schulte, Roth & Zabel. From 1987 until 1993, Chief Judge Howell served as the deputy chief of the Narcotics Section and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, where she was awarded the Attorney General’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance and commendations from the U.S. Attorney and Federal and local law enforcement agencies for her work on international narcotics, money laundering and public corruption cases. From 1993 until 2003, Chief Judge Howell served on the staff and as general counsel of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. From 2004 until January 2013, Judge Howell served two terms as a Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. Following her service on the Judiciary Committee, Chief Judge Howell also worked, from 2003 until 2009, as executive managing director and general counsel of a cybersecurity and digital forensics consulting and technical services firm, for which she headed the largest regional office in Washington, D.C. During her tenure at the firm, Chief Judge Howell was awarded a Director’s Award by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for her “valuable contributions” to the successful investigation and prosecution of a cyber-extortion case. Among her other awards, Chief Judge Howell has been inducted into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the 2004 First Amendment Award by the Society of Professional Journalists. Chief Judge Howell has taught Legal Ethics as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, and is a member of the American Law Institute. She currently serves as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and previously served, from October 2013 until March 2016, as a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Information Technology.
Since there must be ways for prosecuting attorneys to communicate with a Federal District Judge without compromising evidence or jeopardizing an investigation, this has the look of serious prosecutorial incompetence.
Proud Boy judge?
Makes me proud that the Proud Boy got released pending trial. Now they can eavesdrop on his communications.
The chief U.S. district judge of the District of Columbia, Beryl Howell, tore into prosecutors as they hesitated when pressed on certain claims they made about Nordean in a court filings
I’ve read stories and heard anecdotes over beers that when a judge is tearing into you the attorney, she usually wants badly for you to improve your case so she can rule in your favor. Judge Beryl Howell is letter of the law, no pocket nazi-simp. So either the prosecution over-charged, or they had to withhold supporting evidence for strategic reasons.
You don’t think there is a possibility of turning him but need to keep that quiet?
He’s out of jail just in time for the March 4 attack on the Capitol. . . .if it happens.
I guess that takes flight to north off the table.
It would be deliciously ironic if they were to seek to avoid the charges in Mexico or another Central American country.
Call me paranoid and cynical but I fear that because these terrorists are white and their leader is a still quite powerful former president who has the GOP by the balls, and because there are many in government, law enforcement and the military who like him and sympathize with them, and Dems tend to be hyper-“cautious” and fear a backlash if harsh justice is meted out, they’re mostly going to get off with slaps on the wrist. It almost feels preordained. White people who are powerful or connected to powerful people rarely get the justice they deserve. All the more so if they’re RW and tied to the GOP. I hope I’m wrong but however horrific the attack on the Capitol was, I worry that there’s this attitude of “Oh boys will be boys and they were just letting off steam”. Please someone talk me off this ledge, I SO want to believe that I’m wrong.
Prosecutors often overcharge.
I’m not so sure your premise (there must be ways…) is valid. Any lawyers out there care to enlighten us? Without benefit of a legal education it seems possible, maybe even likely, that the prosecutors don’t want to show their hand before trial.
No doubt this judge would have let Mansion go because he didn’t actually shoot anyone.
Never say never.
(If you think the series sounds hilarious in a slightly bent way, you’re entirely correct.)
You have inspired me. We should give the Proud Boys Trailer Park Boys style nicknames. Nordean shall heretofore be known as Bubbles.
It’s a Revolutionary War reenactment. Things got a little out of hand. Boys will be boys.
Yes, they do. But in this case I have to imagine they are being careful, and are coordinating with each other for the 200+ perps charged, and that sometime after jan 20th they had adult supervision.