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Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes Says Trump Needs to ‘Step Up’ and Raise Money For Group’s Legal Defense

poplove wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:25 pm

Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes Says Trump Needs to ‘Step Up’ and Raise Money For Group’s Legal Defense

https://hillreporter.com/oath-keeper-st ... nse-126023

Per defense attorney court submission: The US Justice Dept seized OathKeepers founder Stewart Rhodes "electronic device(s)" .. and are doing "data dumps" from the device(s)

Rhodes has pleaded not guilty and is jailed pending trial in July

The most immediate impact of Jonathon Moseley’s disbarment may be in the upcoming trial of 11 Oath Keepers facing charges of seditious conspiracy for their role in the Capitol breach.

A Virginia state court has disbarred Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who has represented a slew of high-profile Jan. 6 defendants, including a member of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy, as well as several targets of the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

Most prominent among Moseley’s criminal clients is Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keeper from Florida who took on a leadership role for the group that breached the Capitol. Moseley also previously represented Zachary Rehl, one of the Proud Boys leaders charged with conspiring to obstruct Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, though he withdrew from that case in December.

On Friday, after a two-day hearing in Prince William County Circuit Court, a three-judge panel ordered Moseley’s law license revoked, court records show.

Details of the bar discipline case against Moseley were not immediately available, but a summary posted on the Virginia State Bar website on Tuesday said the court found that he violated “professional rules that govern safekeeping property; meritorious claims and contentions; candor toward the tribunal; fairness to opposing party and counsel; unauthorized practice of law, multijurisdictional practice of law; bar admission and disciplinary matters … and misconduct.” The decision was effective on April 1.

Moseley plans to fight the disbarment and immediately filed an appeal. Reached by phone on Tuesday night and asked about the bar action, he was tight-lipped.

“Since it’s on appeal and otherwise confidential, I’ll have to wait on that. Thanks,” Moseley said, before hanging up.

Moseley’s troubles with the Virginia State Bar could imperil his ability to continue as an attorney for Meggs and in an array of other Jan. 6 litigation. Moseley is not a member of the District of Columbia Bar, but does belong to the bar of the federal court in D.C. handling those cases. Membership in that bar is contingent on bar membership in another state or locality.

The most immediate impact of Moseley’s disbarment may be in the upcoming trial of 11 Oath Keepers facing charges of seditious conspiracy for their role in the Capitol breach, including Meggs. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta has worked to keep the trial on track for July, while scheduling two other Oath Keepers trials for later in the year. But Moseley’s exit could complicate Meggs’ ability to prepare a defense.

Moseley has also represented several major witnesses facing subpoenas from the Jan. 6 select committee, including Meggs, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes — who was on the phone with Moseley when the FBI arrested him — and Stop the Steal founder Ali Alexander. Meggs and Alexander have both sued to block the select committee from obtaining their phone records.

bob wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 2:52 pm The Virginia court's order looks like it was slapped together. Suggesting the court felt it didn't have the time to run the order through a word processor.

noblepa wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:15 pmSo, my question is, how often is an appeal from a disbarment successful, resulting in the attorney being re-instated?

And, who do they appeal to? The state organization (state bar association, state supreme court, etc.) who levelled the disbarment, or do they go to a local court?

So, what are the chances that Mosely will be re-instated?

bob wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:28 pm

So, what are the chances that Mosely will be re-instated?

It is hard to say without knowing the details of the facts warranting disbarment.

Tough day in court for Oath Keepers

Discovery in the sprawling and historic seditious conspiracy case is massive and in the run-up to trial, defense counsel for Rhodes has argued there hasn’t been enough time to prepare, pointing to the voluminous amounts of video footage they must comb through to make their case. They have also complained about incomplete records of evidence provided by the prosecution to the defense.

But that’s just not so, according to Judge Mehta.

He emphasized that defense attorneys have had several months to hone their case and sort out what will be relevant in the heap of evidence they have had access to.

To that point, he said, it won’t be video footage of Rhodes or some other Oath Keepers charged with conspiracy breaking a window that will make or break the defense, for example.

“What’s in the videos is not going to reveal what's in the defendant's state of mind,” Mehta said Friday. “What will matter is what is in these chats, what is in their social media, what is in the witness interviews. It will matter what they said to each other, what people overheard.”

“Unlike a lot of other defendants, most Jan. 6 cases genuinely are primarily about what the people did at the Capitol that day. This case has to do with that, undoubtedly true, but this is much more about what was said before Jan. 6, what was done in the days leading up to it and what was done on that day and important what was done after, OK? So, I don’t think anything that was done before Jan. 6, nothing after Jan. 6 was captured in video. It’s all in the chats, in their social media. That’s where you need to be looking,” Mehta said. “That’s whats going to tell a jury, not me, a jury, whether these folks engaged in a conspiracy to interfere with Congress.”

Beyond the scope of discovery, there’s also the sheer size of the trial causing much consternation for Judge Mehta.

Much of Friday’s conference was devoted to figuring out how to best run the trials once they kick off. There are 10 total defendants, plus attorneys for each defendant, a jury, court clerks and officers, and press that would need to squeeze into a single room.

Even the large ceremonial courtroom at the federal courthouse wouldn’t suffice. If the trial is moved offsite, then questions about how to properly detain defendants during breaks arise. The same issues plague the Proud Boys conspiracy case.

Tasha Adams @That_Girl_Tasha wrote: I've been paying $70 a month for 4 1/2 years on a storage unit full of Stewart's crap. He promising to clear it out,but never did. My lawyer said I was no longer obligated to keep it. This is a random sample