Looks like the prosecution made one helluva mistake. The Reflecting Pool has been drained, and they already started on the liner. Sooooo, how can a court case hold up with no evidence? No idea, but this is Pirro we’re discussing, and she’s famous for not telling the whole truth. Remember Sandwich Guy? Yeah, that. And from pictures viewed, there are no small pieces taken out of the liner, just big pieces for repair. And no sign of Trump’s “gash”. Moving along here, respect to Raw Story:
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s felony case against a three-time Olympian faces dismissal after her own prosecutor showed defense attorneys the alleged crime scene — where the evidence no longer exists. David Hearn, the 67-year-old Olympian, was indicted July 2 on a single felony count of destruction of property — accused of pulling up two square feet of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s newly installed liner on June 19. He pleaded not guilty. On July 16, defense attorneys gained access to the drained pool with government assistance. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Reddington accompanied them and showed them the precise spot where Hearn allegedly touched the liner.
So, defense counsel was given access to the supposed “crime” scene. We already know about that part because I mentioned it up top. I would like to get a piece of that liner and see how easy it is to tear, because that would blow the case out the window if it was hard to tear. But it probably isn’t because it was coming apart on its own – right where they poured the hydrogen peroxide. That was just plain stupid. I still want confirmation of whether or not it was a liner or paint. It seems to have been a liner, then painted over. And no one can get close enough to see anything. Nuts.
A sworn declaration attached to a motion to dismiss filed the same day confirms what they found. The filing was first obtained by journalist Marcy Wheeler. “This entire section of the pool liner is missing,” the declaration states. “National Park employees observed Hearn actually forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands,” Pirro said at her July 2 press conference announcing the indictment. Pirro also said Hearn used his “bare hands” to damage the pool. When a reporter asked whether that suggested the liner was already damaged before Hearn arrived, Pirro replied, “Oh, he damaged it. He damaged the pool.”
There’s a whole lot of pool to damage, so Mr. Hearn has that going for him, especially because other pieces have come up and they weren’t small. But she’s trying to prosecute *one* person for the mess? This is pretty selective prosecution, considering other people had touched other pieces that have floated to the top. And just how deep is the water at the edge?
Hearn has maintained he only touched a piece of liner that had already detached and let go when a park employee told him to. The motion to dismiss pointed to photographs the government included in its search warrant application, along with a photo Hearn took before he touched the pool. “Both images show identical damage to the relevant area of the liner before Mr. Hearn ever touched it,” the filing explains. Defense attorneys sent the government a written demand on July 8 to preserve all physical evidence in the case. However, the motion claims that the government fenced off the pool that same day and began draining it again for repairs.
Yup, a rush to get started to hide the liner that was supposedly gashed and ripped up (no actual evidence confirmation was ever determined on the supposed gash) and hide the crappy job the company did the first time. No water, no liner, no proof. And both pictures, the one by him and the one by the government, show the piece in identical photographs already floating at the top of the water. This really is getting into Sandwich Guy farce repetition. I sincerely hope that Pirro gets it good from the judge about all the mistakes and tosses the case. We still need that grand jury report to see how little she told them. And how difficult it is to tear the liner. It’s now 2:40 am.
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