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Judge orders govt. to tell him by 5PM how it will avoid filing unsupported charges against "another Mr. Dana" in future.
Jordan Fischer @JordanOnRecordMagistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, himself a former AUSA, blasted the careless way he said Pirro's office has been charging cases:
“Why is the government not, out of sheer embarrassment and shame, seeking to dismiss with prejudice and expunge the record?”
A magistrate judge said the government owed Edward Dana an apology for filing federal felony charges it couldn't convince a grand jury to support.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office moved to dismiss felony charges Thursday against a man it accused of threatening President Donald Trump and said prosecutors will instead pursue low-level vandalism charges in D.C. Superior Court.
The move is an extraordinary walk-back by Pirro’s office, which last month accused Edward Dana of threatening to kill the president of the United States. Dana’s is one of at least nine cases known so far in which grand juries have declined to indict on charges brought by prosecutors.
Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, a former assistant U.S. attorney with the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C., sharply criticized the carelessness with which he said cases have been filed en masse during the federal surge in the city. He said Dana, who was held in jail for approximately a week following his arrest, deserved at minimum an apology from the government.
Superior Court records show Dana was charged Thursday morning with four misdemeanor counts for allegedly damaging a light fixture outside a Northwest D.C. restaurant.
Faruqui ordered the government to file something by 5 p.m. Thursday telling him how it would avoid filing unsupported charged against “another Mr. Dana” in the future, and directed prosecutors to file something by Monday afternoon as to why Dana should not have the record of his arrest expunged.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/sheer-embarassment-us-attorney-jeaninepirros-office-drops-charges-against-man-it-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-president-trump-edward-dana-grand-jury/65-00d2cf32-d3e3-4591-8c28-bdb28f7a1af1
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office moved to dismiss felony charges Thursday against a man it accused of threatening President Donald Trump and said prosecutors will instead pursue low-level vandalism charges in D.C. Superior Court.
The move is an extraordinary walk-back by Pirro’s office, which last month accused Edward Dana of threatening to kill the president of the United States. Dana’s is one of at least nine cases known so far in which grand juries have declined to indict on charges brought by prosecutors.
Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, a former assistant U.S. attorney with the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C., sharply criticized the carelessness with which he said cases have been filed en masse during the federal surge in the city. He said Dana, who was held in jail for approximately a week following his arrest, deserved at minimum an apology from the government.
Superior Court records show Dana was charged Thursday morning with four misdemeanor counts for allegedly damaging a light fixture outside a Northwest D.C. restaurant.
Faruqui ordered the government to file something by 5 p.m. Thursday telling him how it would avoid filing unsupported charged against “another Mr. Dana” in the future, and directed prosecutors to file something by Monday afternoon as to why Dana should not have the record of his arrest expunged.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/sheer-embarassment-us-attorney-jeaninepirros-office-drops-charges-against-man-it-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-president-trump-edward-dana-grand-jury/65-00d2cf32-d3e3-4591-8c28-bdb28f7a1af1
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