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U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the text messages sent by FBI Agent Eugenia Bates were “highly relevant” to questions of bias attorneys for Sidney Lori Reid should be able to raise at trial.

The case, which goes before a jury beginning Oct. 14, will be one of the first tests of whether U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office can secure convictions on charges related to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and federal surge in D.C. Reid is facing a single misdemeanor count of assault after federal grand juries declined three times to indict her on a more serious felony charge.

Reid’s case was the first in a continuing and extraordinarily rare wave of grand jury rejections. Grand juries have also refused to indict a former Justice Department paralegal accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer and a lawyer accused of assaulting members of the National Guard, among others. Prosecutors have additionally dropped or downgraded felony charges in several other cases in lieu of going before a grand jury.

In court filings, Pirro’s office has expressed repeated concerns about jury nullification – a decision by jurors not to indict or convict not because they believe the defendant has not broken the law, but because they believe the law, or the prosecutor who filed the charges, are wrong. Prosecutors said in a filing Tuesday the case was at a “heightened risk” of nullification. Reid’s attorneys, for their part, have said they have no intention of attempting to persuade the jury to pursue nullification.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/highly-relevant-judge-will-allow-fbi-agents-texts-disparaging-alleged-assailant-at-trial-grand-jury-no-bill-indictment-trump-surge-immigration-ice/65-4480c64f-76da-45ff-b62d-56ffcbdf8df5

In a country facing democratic backsliding, encroaching authoritarianism, and an ethics-challenged Supreme Court rotting the legal system starting from the top going down; we need something on our side regardless of which party has the majority.

Jury Nullification:
* Know it
* Say it... outside of the courtroom
* Google it
* And be prepared to use it