{"id":1663323,"date":"2022-09-28T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663323"},"modified":"2022-09-28T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:52:25","slug":"subpoenas-drafted-for-6-convicted-oath-keepers-seeking-evidence-they-were-coerced-to-lie-in-plea-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/subpoenas-drafted-for-6-convicted-oath-keepers-seeking-evidence-they-were-coerced-to-lie-in-plea-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Subpoenas Drafted for 6 Convicted Oath Keepers, Seeking Evidence They Were Coerced to Lie in Plea Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsubpoenas-drafted-for-6-convicted-oath-keepers-seeking-evidence-they-were-coerced-to-lie-in-plea-deals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Subpoenas have been drafted for six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-oath-keepers\">Oath Keepers<\/a> convicted of Jan. 6 crimes, looking for texts, emails, or other records that could show they were coerced by prosecutors to lie in their plea deals, a new court filing said.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys in the Oath Keepers seditious-conspiracy trial underway in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. asked Judge Amit Mehta to sign the subpoenas addressed to Joshua James, Jason Dolan, William Todd Wilson, Caleb Berry, Brian Ulrich, and Mark Grods.<\/p>\n<p>As drafted, the subpoenas seek: \u201cAll non-privileged records, to exclude correspondence with your attorneys, your spouse, any medical provider, and any religious and\/or spiritual advisors, concerning your guilty plea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys are looking for evidence that these Oath Keepers agreed to the guilty pleas only under coercion by prosecutors, believing that they are actually innocent of the charges that will put them in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStewart Rhodes knows these Oath Keepers,\u201d wrote Edward Tarpley, an attorney for Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III. The convicted men \u201cknew the Oath Keepers engaged in no conspiracy, had no plan to commit any crime, and intended to act lawfully at all times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Rhodes knows from knowing them that they must have told friends and family that they were in fact innocent but they had to plead guilty due to the crushing financial burden and other pressures such as incarceration and concern for the needs of their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tarpley said a big clue to the alleged coercion is the \u201cflip-flops\u201d evident in the plea deals, and the boilerplate language used in the statements of guilt made at the time of the pleas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven after pleading guilty, the witnesses clearly establish their own innocence and the innocence of all of the defendants here, then include scripted statements not in their own \u2018voice\u2019 saying the opposite. The after-plea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subpoenas have been drafted for six Oath Keepers convicted of Jan. 6 crimes, looking for texts, emails, or other records that could show they were coerced by prosecutors to lie in their plea deals, a new court filing said. Defense attorneys in the Oath Keepers seditious-conspiracy trial underway in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. 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