PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox claims that Muyskens relied upon video evidence provided by Project Veritas, a conservative activist group infamous for undercover video, to back the prosecutions, knowing the video was misleadingly edited. Fox also claims Muyskens attempted to hide from the court that Project Veritas was the source of the video evidence by removing references to the group and editing out some clips, which it argued deprived the defendants of a complete legal defense. Muyskens knew that her “editing of the original videos could hurt the prosecution and help the defense,” the complaint said. Fox also claimed Muyskens’s “statements and omissions to the government … were false and misleading.” Muyskens’s charges against more than 100 defendants were eventually dropped after some early trials ended in acquittals."
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PASSAGE TWO OF THE DAY: "Fox also claims Muyskens made false claims during investigations into the alleged misconduct, both to the disciplinary office and the Department of Justice. A D.C. Superior Court judge in November 2018 found that Muyskens intentionally withheld evidence but did not act maliciously, according to the disciplinary office."
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STORY: "Federal prosecutor accused of withholding evidence in Trump protest cases," The Hill (Staff Writer and Breaking News Reporter) Reporter Nick Robertson) reports.
GIST: A former federal prosecutor who oversaw more than 200 cases related to protests of former President Trump’s 2017 inauguration has been accused of withholding evidence, according to an attorney disciplinary claim.
Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, formerly of the D.C. district attorney’s office, allegedly attempted to edit or obscure video evidence used against the defendants that otherwise could have been used to clear them of criminal charges, argued the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC).
Muyskens’s cases involved charges of rioting, conspiracy and destruction of property during Trump’s 2017 inauguration, mostly targeting protest group DisruptJ20. A total of 230 people were arrested as part of the protests.
Disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox claims that Muyskens relied upon video evidence provided by Project Veritas, a conservative activist group infamous for undercover video, to back the prosecutions, knowing the video was misleadingly edited.
Fox also claims Muyskens attempted to hide from the court that Project Veritas was the source of the video evidence by removing references to the group and editing out some clips, which it argued deprived the defendants of a complete legal defense.
Muyskens knew that her “editing of the original videos could hurt the prosecution and help the defense,” the complaint said.
Fox also claimed Muyskens’s “statements and omissions to the government … were false and misleading.”
Muyskens’s charges against more than 100 defendants were eventually dropped after some early trials ended in acquittals.
Fox also claims Muyskens made false claims during investigations into the alleged misconduct, both to the disciplinary office and the Department of Justice.
A D.C. Superior Court judge in November 2018 found that Muyskens intentionally withheld evidence but did not act maliciously, according to the disciplinary office."
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
