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LA Times: ‘Amateur hour at the U.S. attorney’s office’: L.A. prosecutors face more losses in protest cases

"...Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters.

A federal judge criticized the U.S. attorney’s office as “amateur hour” after prosecutors failed to disclose evidence during an assault trial...."

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-03/u-s-attorneys-office-losses-protest-cases

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'Amateur hour at the U.S. attorney's office': L.A. prosecutors face more losses in protest cases

This week, L.A. federal prosecutors were in two separate trials involving a charge of assault on a federal officer tied to immigration protests. They hadn't won a single assault case that went to trial so far. But this time they had a video of a punch.

Los Angeles Times

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AI6YR Ben 14h ago

Per article:

"...“You would think that, at some point, they might start to realize that history and the public are not on their side, that the will of the people is not on their side,” Nicol said. “But they’re so determined to get convictions on these cases, they don’t stop.”..."

(TLDR: lots of serious case issues, jury's are not sympathetic, jurys appear to be also nullifying cases).

"...Birotte said he agreed with the defense attorneys that the failure to turn over discovery constituted a Brady violation, in which suppression of evidence favorable to the defense violates due process.

“The government has tried numerous cases like this, I’m just surprised that there wouldn’t be a check to see ‘Has everything been turned over?’” Birotte said. “The notion that they inadvertently failed to add reports to this case is just not compelling to this court. This is something that should have been looked at and it wasn’t.”..."

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