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BY ED WHITE
Updated 3:02 PM CDT, September 19, 2023

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general suggested conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of three men in the final trial related to a plan to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Dana Nessel, also a Democrat, told a liberal group Monday the trial was held in a “very right-leaning county.”

She said Friday’s verdicts were “perplexing, confusing but terrifying.” The Detroit News obtained a video of Nessel’s remarks to a group called Protectors of Equality in Government.

It is uncommon for a prosecutor, or even a defense lawyer, to publicly question a jury’s motivation. Unlike Nessel, the U.S. Justice Department did not blame two federal acquittals last year in the same investigation on ideology.

William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were found not guilty of providing material support for a terrorist act and a weapon charge. They were the last of 14 men to face charges in state or federal court. Nine were convicted and a total of five were cleared.

In cases that went to trial, state and federal prosecutors won only five of 10 verdicts.

The Nulls and Molitor were accused of supporting leaders of the kidnapping plan by participating in military-style drills and traveling to see Whitmer’s second home in northern Michigan’s Antrim County. The main figures, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., were convicted of conspiracy last year in federal court.

“Three of them were acquitted by a jury in Antrim County, not because we didn’t have great evidence but because essentially, it seemed to me as though the Antrim County jurors, (in a) very, very right-leaning county (were) seemingly not so concerned about the kidnapping and assassination of the governor,” Nessel said, according to the newspaper.

Matthew Schneider, who was U.S. attorney in Detroit in 2020 when the FBI broke up the kidnapping plot, said Nessel’s remarks were inappropriate.

“We might disagree with jurors, but I don’t think it’s helpful to trash them and the American jury system when things don’t go our way,” Schneider told The Associated Press. “That’s especially true here where the AG’s office selected these jurors and agreed to have them serve during jury selection.”

The AP sought an interview with Nessel about the verdicts, but her office declined.

William Null and Molitor testified in their own defense. Michael Null’s attorney, Tom Siver, said he was so unimpressed with the state’s evidence that he did not cross-examine witnesses during 14 days of testimony.

Molitor’s attorney, William Barnett, said Nessel’s remarks were a “blatant insult” to jurors and Judge Charles Hamlyn who presided over jury selection.

“If people could not be impartial, they said so,” Barnett said of the jury process.

“She’s barking up the wrong tree to be criticizing the jury that made the four-week sacrifice to do the duty of all American citizens to serve in their criminal justice system,” he said.

At trial, Molitor said FBI informant Dan Chappel, who was inside the group for months, had “glued” the scheme together.

“He helped set people up. He drove people. He paid for stuff. He did trainings,” Molitor told the jury. “If it wasn’t for him actually bringing people together and setting stuff up, the majority of people would not have gotten together to do this or even talked about stuff.”

Good I hope so.

The entire narrative fell apart the second the case went to discovery.

Just like J6 when the truth ever comes out.
FBI undercover:  follow me Trump said he will meet us inside!”

such a nasty cunt, just like whitmer.  whitmers summer house is in the same county as trial was.

If the progs insist on weaponizing the judicial system, then they shouldn't be surprised that there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It's going to look like jury nullification.

And it's going to look like "red" areas prosecuting progs in the same way they're prosecuting people they don't like.

That's why it's a bad idea to start down this path, because it turns into seriously evil shit. But if they insist on doing evil shit, then I insist on the exact same thing being done to them just as hard.

Hummm… Might be something to keep in the back of your mind, Dana.

Democrats really are nasty vile people.  They disgust me.  They fit into one of two groups.......ignorant or tyrant.

Many fall into both categories.

So after realizing the whole kidnapping plot was set up by the FBI the jury decided enticement and entrapment is not OK in a civil America.

Says the alcohol binge lady that had to get wheel chaired out of a football game for drinking too much.

Oh noes, they weren't all members of our cult who will blindly be evil tyrants.

The horror.

The Whitmer case went so well, the agent was promoted to the field office in DC before J6:

Crazy world.

The Terror Factory can be beat.  It should be defunded and shut down.

Um, maybe it was the 14 FBI sponsored conspirators?

When you have wokes at the FBI with bullshit college degrees making stuff up, yeah. It's not gonna be that sturdy.

And when you're forced to try a case outside the boundaries of your democrat shitholes where you can't pack a jury pool with low IQ inner city troglodytes, you'll invariably wind up with some people that will actually believe that someone is innocent until proven guilty.

She isn't done punishing Michigan for voting Trump.

I hope so.   Our side needs to learn to stick together.

This is especially rich because the dims/libtards are bleating "trust the jury system, it's fair!!!" while they refuse to move orange man bad's federal trial out of DC proper because "DC jurors can be fair!!! even though it's basically a dim stronghold.

That guy is a shit stain on our nation:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/12/20/ex-fbi-agent-whitmer-kidnap-plot-enters-plea-case-tied-wifes-assault/8969608002/
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/documents-reveal-more-about-gruesome-abuse-allegations-against-lead-fbi-agent-on-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-case/

And all are Anti-American.

And this is why I cringe at those who complain and try to get out of jury duty.

Witness credibility is always a question of fact for the jury to decide. If a juror thinks that all state or federal employees are full of shit and not credible, that's his prerogative.

(And autocorrect just changed "his prerogative" to "God's perogies." I'd hate to speak for God but everything is His prerogative, and suddenly I've got this damnedest pierogi craving.)

depends how the judge is I guess

Also....Whitmer is so hot

Puta comunista

I like em fluffy like that brother...also Cher Bear 22 finally did some pics of her meow...I found that out this morning...great start to the day!

Once everybody who supplied any brain power or supplies to the effort is granted immunity, it's kind of like having your brand new house catch fire and fall down and suing Paco the Day Labor Landscaper From the Home Depot Parking Lot, who worked there for cash for three days, because the architect, engineer, GC electrician, and framers were all off-limits.

The booze makes her look much older than her 54 years.

The FUPA, bro, the FUPA

Michigan’s attorney general suggested conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of three men in the final trial related to a plan to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Translation: Politics was the sole reason those people were persecuted.

Addendum: When right leaning prosecutors commit these large scale witch hunts that leftists do routinely, we can start discussing how "both parties are the same".

Those bastards!

Def got that midcap gut starter kit going for her now.    

So true.

yeah it may be there when she's standing up, but it just goes flat when she's laying down. Also..you know she has one fantastic MONS no doubt

right in the pussy!

Liberalism is about never taking personal responsibility and rejecting consequences.  Whitmer and her circus clowns are proof. I left Michigan just in time.

Let’s get these folks entered in Dana White’s Power Slap, CELEBRITY/Politician Division.  Can’t have Celebrity Death Match so, best we can hope for.

If I remember correctly the ringleader was a wife beating swinger FBI agent with shitty tatts all over him.

Corrupt and more corrupt.

She's such a ****.

Seems like the DA doesn’t believe in the judicial process.

Dana Nessel:

I'm thinking not too flat when she's on top, more like an udder ruining the view.  

Bullwinkle Choice (for those old enough to remember the Bullwinkle Show):

Sure, Losers

or

Sore Losers.

for all of you unfortunate enough not to be michiganders here was her campaign ad

A 'jury of your peers' used to be the standard.

The democratic socialist don't want a Republic now that it has a majority of voters.

They want to vote on things like justice, equality, and rights that were once enshrined in our Constitution.

But if people are independent and conservative they don't need a big government.

They both can eat shit and bark at the moon

I can see it now liberal AG's and DA's saying "Your Honor we are seeking a change off venue because the people cannot get a fair trial because the jury pool is to conservative".