The following article by Alan Pyke was posted on the ThinkProgress website May 31, 2018:0
A dramatic failure to honor the basic principles of criminal law could put a sudden end to the long-suffering First Amendment case.
Federal prosecutors hid scores of videos from the hundreds of anti-Trump demonstrators they charged with serious felonies in an unprecedented crackdown on Inauguration Day protests, defense lawyers alleged in an overnight filing Wednesday.
The new accusations exacerbate an existing crisis for prosecutors, who already admitted last week to hiding one 55-minute video and misrepresented edits they made to another video. That initial screw-up, known to lawyers as a Brady violation, already jeopardized the case. Continue reading “Prosecutors hid mountains of evidence in trial of Trump inauguration protester”