The Mayor has had the Federal trespass charges dropped on a situation at a Federal Prison demo in Newark…
The Fed’s have tried to back away from the arrest of a sitting NJ US Member that was at the same place the Mayor was….
But the House member has turned down a possible ‘deal’ to stop a possible ‘trespass’ arrest that WILL most likely NOT stick and drive other US House member’s to start visiting Federal dentition center’s around the country for ‘inspections ‘ by memebers of the US Congress that authorize their budgets….
“The apparent rush in this case, culminating today in the embarrassing retraction of charges, suggests a failure to adequately investigate,” Espinosa continued. “… Your office must operate with a higher standard than that.”
Interim U.S. attorney Alina Habba has offered no explanation for her decision to drop the misdemeanor trespassing charge her office filed against Baraka (D) following his controversial arrest this month outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark.
Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, has also charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-New Jersey) with assaulting two ICE agents during the heated clash that erupted May 9 as agents swooped in to detain the mayor. The congresswoman and other Democrats in Washington have decried her prosecution as an attempt at “political intimidation.”
At Baraka’s hearing Wednesday, Demanovich sidestepped the judge’s demands to explain how prosecutors could have said last week they were fully prepared to take Baraka’s case to trial, only to move to drop the charges days later….
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Dismissing the case, Demanovich responded, “was the most appropriate resolution in the interest of justice.”…
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[US House Member] McIver, who attended virtually from Washington, did not enter a plea and was released on her own recognizance after the 15-minute hearing.
The quiet, largely perfunctory nature of that proceeding stood in contrast to the later fireworks at Baraka’s hearing and the charged political response that the cases against the congresswoman and themayor have provoked….
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McIver, Watson Coleman and Menendez were at the Delaney Hall detention facility conducting a congressional oversight visit, which is permitted under federal law, when agents blocked Baraka from joining them.
Baraka, who is running in this year’s Democratic primary for New Jersey governor, has maintained agents invited him onto the property before asking him to leave. He eventually did so, retreating to public property just outside….
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McIver told CNN on Tuesday that she refused to accept a deal that prosecutors offered her to resolve the case before it ended up in court….
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As with the Wisconsin State judge, and the Newark Mayor….
The cases will quietly go away ….
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