General Discussion

kpete

(71,994 posts) Tue Aug 16, 2022, 08:09 AM Aug 2022

Pretty soon will Navarro be able to sit down and write a new book from jail

Second, the Defendant’s continuing claims about his arrest are based on a
misrepresentation of the facts and his posture toward the Government at the time of his arrest. He
claims that it was unprecedented and unusual that he was not permitted to self-report. ECF No.
31 at 28. Contrary to the Defendant’s claims, however, it is not law enforcement’s normal practice
to ask combative, unrepresented subjects to self-surrender. At the time he was indicted and
arrested, the Defendant was not represented. And only a few days before, when the case agents
attempted to interview him and serve him with a subpoena at his residence, the Defendant at first
refused to open the door and then, when he did, told the agents to “get the f*** out of here.”
6 The Defendant also has an extensive history of seeking out news coverage. To avoid a media circus,
therefore, the arresting agents encountered the Defendant in a discrete location on the jet-bridge at
the airport, removed him to the tarmac, and took him to be booked from there—all out of sight of
the public. Moreover, the “strip search” and “leg irons” of which the Defendant repeatedly
complains is, to the Government’s understanding, the U.S. Marshal’s standard procedure for all
arrestees—whether they self-surrender or not. The Defendant seeks to have this Court attribute
discriminatory intent to an arrest operation aimed at safely and efficiently handling an
unrepresented, unpredictable subject without a media frenzy. His claims are meritless.

6 This interaction was recorded and produced in discovery to the Defendant on June 14,
2022. The Government can provide it to the Court if needed.
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