It Takes a Thief: FACE 2 for 1?

GRAND THEFT "AUTO" IX?

"Brave" investigative reporters at Live Action had indicated that the persons indicted under the 18 U.S.C. Section 248, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act could face up to 11 years in prison, but did not even mention the indictment brought under 18 U.S.C. Section 241. Actually, the maximum sentence under the FACE Act, although a felony, is three years, but only for second offenders, and for first offenders, only one year, which is not a felony, but only a misdemeanor. Why is that important?

This is where actual criminal investigation experience, maybe civil rights and criminal defense, maybe even litigation or law school experience, is kind of important if you want to get a story right--wait! They are "brave". I get it.

You don't convene a grand jury for a misdemeanor charge because it isn't necessary, and it is a waste of limited judicial resources, but you do require a grand jury, if you want to charge a felony, which makes the additional charge under 18 U.S.C., conspiracy to violate "civil rights", and not just "rights", as written on the arrest warrant, in addition to the fact that it has traditionally been utilized for prosecuting voting rights act cases, and even then, not since the 1960s, and, even then, the murderers of the Freedom Riders, Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, who were involved in voter registration, vicinity Philadelphia, Mississippi, only served, tops, six years, despite sentences from seven to ten, and, nobody in this case has been stopped by police, taken back to the station, released, tracked down again, and had their bodies buried in the woods. So, even a ten maximum on the Section 241, and a one year charge on the FACE Act, doesn't even make sense, but the charge, traditionally brought for voting rights being extended to abortion rights is a significant deviation of DOJ policy, about which we have submitted a FOIA request--a change of policy that found the Biden Administration reaching back retroactively to a prior Administration, examining disposed criminal cases to cherry pick abortion related cases and then convene a jury, which could, under jurisprudence establish a case of selective prosecution, and warrant seeking Brady Rule evidence for purposes of impeachment, to support a necessity defense. Or that's just my hunch, as a former childhood protege of a legendary criminal defense and civil rights attorney, whose capital punishment clients, unlike Tim Kaine's did not need Ray Brown rolling up in his Mercedes to bum a last meal, and say sorry things didn't quite work out, but, I love you, man.