Jody Owens really wants the public to hear his side of the story. The Hinds County District Attorney filed a motion to lift restrictions on a motion to dismiss he filed in January after the Court almost immediately sealed the filing. Owens is under indictment on public corruption charges.
A federal grand jury indicted Owens, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and City Councilman Aaron Banks on public corruption charges in 2024. Former Councilwoman Angelique Lee and insurance mogul Marve Smith pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit bribery in 2024 as well.
Lumumba stands accused of bribery, wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
Owens filed a motion to dismiss with a supporting memorandum and 47 exhibits January 12 in U.S. District Court. The motion accused the government of misconduct in its efforts to prosecute Owens.
The Justice Department almost immediately asked U.S. District Court Judge Dan Jordan, III to seal the filing the same day, claiming it violated a protective order.
The Court granted the request and sealed the filings the next day but not before most of the local media downloaded the motion and the supporting exhibits. However, the District Attorney is not ready to throw in the towel on this little squabble.
Owens filed a motion to remove the restrictions on his January motion and accompanying exhibits. The defendant argues:
2. In an “Emergency Motion” [77], the Government alleged that Owens was in “violation of [the Court’s] Protective Order” by attaching Government “discovery material” as exhibits to his public filing. Despite alleging a violation of the Protective Order, the Government neither quoted, nor attached a copy of, the Protective Order [58]. Instead, the Government paraphrased the Protective Order in its Motion and, in doing so, omitted its dispositive language. 3. The Protective Order expressly states in its final paragraph: … the foregoing Order does not preclude the parties from utilizing discovery material in connection with the filing of pretrial motions.The motion claims Owens did not violate the protective order but the motion was restricted because of the government's "misrepresentations."
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Your honor, I tender to the court a motion to influence the jury.
AfroMan is coming to save the day!!!!!!
"Let's try it in the media."
Gag orders should be entered
He was but then he got high
Obviously guilty however after the U S Attorney botched the case involving the obviously guilty Ted Dibiase I am not sure that these three codependents will be convicted either.
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