{"id":52544,"date":"2022-06-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52544"},"modified":"2022-06-11T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T18:01:24","slug":"law-crime-federal-judge-wont-let-prosecutors-use-digital-cameras-seized-from-accused-u-s-capitol-rioter-seen-boasting-about-fighting-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52544","title":{"rendered":"Law &#038; Crime: Federal Judge Won\u2019t Let Prosecutors Use Digital Cameras Seized from Accused U.S. Capitol Rioter Seen Boasting About \u2018Fighting Cops\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Law &amp; Crime: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/u-s-capitol-breach\/federal-judge-wont-let-prosecutors-use-digital-cameras-seized-from-accused-u-s-capitol-rioter-seen-boasting-about-fighting-cops\/\">Federal Judge Won\u2019t Let Prosecutors Use Digital Cameras Seized from Accused U.S. Capitol Rioter Seen Boasting About \u2018Fighting Cops\u2019 <\/a>by Adam Klasfeld:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Prosecutors cannot use digital cameras seized from an accused U.S. Capitol rioter seen boasting on YouTube about \u201cfighting cops and shit,\u201d a federal judge ruled on Thursday.<\/p><p>U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Joe Biden appointee, was among the slate of judicial nominees with a legal background as public defender, as part of the 46th president\u2019s effort to promote diversity on the federal bench.<\/p><p>Now that sensitivity to the due process rights of the accused has redounded to the benefit of Paul Russell Johnson, a Virginia man whom the government identifies as having had a key role in the failed effort to block the certification of Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p><p>\u201cThe defendant opened the floodgates to the January 6 riot,\u201d the Justice Department wrote in a 31-page brief that opposed Johnson\u2019s motion to suppress that evidence. \u201cWhat followed were hours of terror, violence, and destruction as thousands of rioters made their way onto the Capitol grounds and inside the U.S. Capitol Building.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law &amp; Crime: Federal Judge Won\u2019t Let Prosecutors Use Digital Cameras Seized from Accused U.S. Capitol Rioter Seen Boasting About \u2018Fighting Cops\u2019 by Adam Klasfeld:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52545,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52544\/revisions\/52545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}