Several federal prosecutors – including the head of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights section – have submitted their resignation after a plea offered by the new American lawyer in Los Angeles to a Sheriff’s deputy who had already been found guilty of using excessive violence.
Two sources confirmed to the time that assistant-American lawyers Eli A. Alcaraz, Brian R. Faerstein and section Chief Cassie Palmer resigned names about a “post-trial” pleidooi agreement that was submitted on Thursday in the case of Trevor Kirk, a fierce representative of a delegate for a delegate for a delegated representative of the representative of La County’s representative of the representative of La County’s representative of the representative of La County’s representative of La County’s representative of La County’s representative of La County’s representative of La Countyoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekoniekonie’s representative of La Countyon’s representative. Attacks and pepper spraying A woman outside Lancaster -Supermarkt.
Faerstein reached Saturday afternoon and said he had no comments. None of the other public prosecutors would have said that he resigned, responded to questions. The sources that confirmed the dismissal for anonymity for anonymity to fear that they feared retribution. A spokesperson for the office of the American lawyer refused to comment.
Kirk, which was illuminated by the Department of the Sheriff “Van Klicht”, was found guilty in February of one crime number of rights of rights under the color of the law and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to the plea that was submitted on Thursday, which still requires approval from a judge, he would be in prison for a maximum of one year in prison. The government agreed to recommend a year of probation.
In June 2023, Kirk responded to a reported robbery when he threw a woman on the floor and peppered her in the face while she filmed him outside a Lancaster Winco. While the woman corresponded to the description of a female suspect who had received Kirk from a coordinator, she was not armed or committed a crime when he first confronted her, according to judicial archives.
According to the new Agreement, Kirk would argue for a less more crime breach of rights of rights under the color of the law.
If the plea is approved by the judge, according to the agreement, the office of the American attorney “would be committed to strike the jury” that Kirk injured the victim.
Alcaraz, Palmer, Faerstein and another public prosecutor, Michael J. Morse, went free from the case, according to the court applications. The only assistant -American lawyer who has registered with the pleidooi agreement, Robert J. Keenan, was not previously involved in the case.
Bill Essayli, appointed us ATtorney for Los Angeles last month President Trump is also stated in the agreement.
Kirk’s lawyer, Tom Yu, refused to comment on Friday evening. He previously described Kirk as a “hero, not a criminal” and said that video showed that he was acting within the law to “hold a combative robbery suspect.”
The step of Essayli to offer a crime to a suspect who had already been convicted was extremely unorthodox, according to Carley Palmer, a former supervisor in the office of the federal public prosecutor in Los Angeles, who is now a partner at Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP.
“It is not unprecedented, but it is extraordinary, to try to withdraw a jury judgment and replace it with a pleid agreement to a lesser crime. The government is investing extraordinary means to realize a matter like that,” she said. “You have the desk of the desk, you have all the man or female hours … Then you have a jury who says you have a reasonable doubt.”
To justify the search for a plea for post-judgment, prosecutors should have found indications that the suspect was innocent or that, according to Palmer, there was serious misconduct of the process team.
Last month the American district judge Stephen V. Wilson denied a motion from Yu for acquittal. Wilson ruled that images of the incident were sufficient evidence for a jury to discover that Kirk had used ‘objectively unreasonable power’.
“JH had no weapon, did not attack the suspect, did not try to flee and did not actively commit a crime,” Wilson wrote, and identified the woman involved by initials.
The judge also noted in his ruling that while Kirk acted aggressively in the direction of the woman from the start, his partner managed to lead the arrest of the other robbery suspect without using violence.
There are noticeable differences in the way in which the new pleidooi agreement describes what Kirk did, compared to a press release published by the office of the American lawyers in February when the jury reduced a guilty verdict.
The agreement makes references to the woman who has Kirk’s attempt “resistance” to hold her and describes her as “SWatting” by the arm of the representative.
In his statement last month, Wilson decided that this could have been seen as the victim who reacted reflexively to Kirk’s actions, and noted that it is unclear whether she will even get Kirk.
The Pleidooi agreement also does not refer to the injuries of the woman, while the release of February says that she was “treated for blunt-force head trauma and injuries on her head, arms and wrist.”
Lawyer Caree Harper, who represents the woman in a civil lawsuit that reached a scheme earlier this year, said that the new plea “changes the facts” and is not supported by video images of the incident.
“They take creative freedom with the facts and decide to give a jury of Trevor Kirk’s colleagues the middle finger and it should not be tolerated,” she told The Times. If Wilson approves the agreement, Harper said, she expects that the civil rights groups will launch protests and encourage the prosecutors or public prosecutors to take the matter.
Harper noted that the downgrading of Kirk’s indictment of a crime could enable him to continue to work as a law enforcement officer. He will also keep his right to possess a firearm without a crime conviction.
“He should definitely not be able to wear a badge again, everywhere in every state,” she said.
According to Robert Bonner, a former federal judge who is now chairman of the Civilian Oversight Commission of the province, a plea is an extreme rarity after conviction. Allowing supplications after the process, Bonner said, could undermine the ability of public prosecutors to negotiate in the future.
“If you did this routinely, you could never get a plea,” he said.
Although federal prosecutors and the defense both agreed to the deal, Bonner said, the judge does not have to adhere to it.
“He could reject the whole plea, or he can accept the plea deal and say that I will not give a year of probation, I will give in custody for six months or another period up to a year in prison,” he said.
Wilson refused last month to postpone the hearing of Kirk on May 19, after officers of Justice told him that Essayli wanted more time to revise the case.
Support for Kirk started to get steam on social media after his indictment last September. In January, Nick Wilson, founder of a First Responder Advocacy Group and spokesperson for the professional association of the Sheriff of Los Angeles Sheriff, wrote a letter to Trump in which he encouraged him to intervene before the case went to court. Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who has become increasingly popular in right-wing circles online, has also defended the Kirk case and placed Instagram video of himself and Wilson who comforts the delegate in the courthouse after the trial.
Wilson, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Professional Association, said on Friday that he “was encouraged by the recent development in the case of deputy Trevor Kirk and will continue to follow the coming conviction closely.”
“Although this case should never have been prosecuted, we are deeply grateful that the Ministry of Justice has looked at a second, impartial view of the facts and merits,” he said in an e -mail. “This promotion sends a powerful message – not only in the case of Trevor, but also for law enforcement officers in the entire state and nation who are too often abandoned or feel politically focused in today’s climate.”
A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department of La County did not immediately comment on developments in Kirk’s case.
The wave of dismissal comes in the midst of other recent controversy in the office of the federal public prosecutor. In March, an official from the White House Adam Schleifer fired as assistant-American lawyer, in an e-mail with one line in which he told him that the resignation was “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump”.
Schleifer recently challenged his resignation, called it ‘illegal’ and claimed that it was partly motivated by his persecution of Andrew Wiederhorn, the former chairman and chief executive of Fat Brands, who owns the restaurant chains of Fatburger and Johnny Rockets. Schleifer had also posted negative comments about Trump during a period in which he left his job as an public prosecutor to work as a democrat.
According to Meghann Cuniff, an independent reporter for legal affairs, the Ministry of Justice rewrs A separate case in which Alexander Smirnov is involvedA former FBI informant who pleaded guilty for lying about a fake -allocation scheme in which President Biden and his son Hunter were involved. A federal court sentenced Smirnov to six years in prison.
The unrest in the La Federal Office Office follows a massive resignation earlier this year in the office of the American lawyers in Manhattan, when several public prosecutors arrived after the appointment of Trump the appointed accusations of corruption against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, Eric Adams.
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