Trampling of rights of Jan. 6 defendant

 Political Insider:

A judge on Monday admonished the Justice Department for their handling of Capitol riot cases, suggesting the sheer size and scope of the investigation led to some defendants having their rights “trampled.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui made the unusually stern denunciation at a hearing for Lucas Denney of Texas, whom the judge states was “lost” in the system as the DOJ sought to prosecute a considerable number of cases involving January 6th.

Faruqui, who noted he was formerly a federal prosecutor in the same U.S. Attorney’s Office leading the investigation, suggested the government had “bitten off more than it can chew.”

“You have been lost for months,” the judge told Denney. “There’s no excuse to treat a human being like that. … There is no circumstance under which any person should be forgotten.”
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Denney was detained in December without bail but wasn’t transferred to Washington for six weeks. Once there, according to the Politico report, nobody contacted the D.C. court to get a hearing for Denney for over three weeks.

“I am utterly at a loss,” Faruqui told the Capitol riot defendant during his hearing.

“I see a person’s rights that have been trampled,” the judge said.
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I suspect Denny was not the only one to have their rights trampled by the Jan. 6 prosecutions. 

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