DOJ Prosecutors Admit to Breaking Law and Violating Jan. 6 Defendant’s Rights
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A tangled legal mess spilled across a Washington, D.C., courtroom on Monday as Department of Justice prosecutors agreed to drop several charges against a Capitol incursion defendant who later offered to plead guilty to one charge against him.
Lucas Denney of Mansfield, Texas, was arrested Dec. 13 — 11 months after the Jan. 6, 2021, incident — on charges that included “civil disorder, obstructing an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a dangerous weapon or resulting in bodily injury,” according to a Dec. 14 Justice Department news release.
However, the federal Speedy Trial Act required prosecutors to file an indictment or criminal information against Denney within 30 days, according to Reuters; prosecutors did neither.
That led Denney’s lawyers to file for his release earlier this month.
The Justice Department agreed to drop the charges with prosecutors admitting in a court filing that “the government failed to comply with the Speedy Trial Act in this case,” Reuters reported, calling it a “rare admission.”
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