The Wild Mystery of the Jan. 6 Lawyer Who Vanished

[Zorro]

John Pierce has taken on his 18th Capitol riot defendant. But their cases are now at a standstill after a bizarre turn of events.

When John Pierce, the anti-vaxxer and criminal defense attorney representing some 17 defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, didn’t show up for a court date last week, a stand-in offered a suspiciously equivocal explanation.

“Mr. Pierce is in the hospital, we believe, with COVID-19, on a ventilator, non-responsive,” Pierce’s 30-year-old law partner Ryan Joseph-Gene Marshall told the judge.

A slew of credulous headlines followed about Pierce’s apparent intubation. No one by that name had been admitted to Cedars-Sinai or the UCLA Medical Center, the two major hospitals near where Pierce lives, and details about his condition were scant.

Pierce, 49, had last been in touch with prosecutors on Aug. 23.

That evening, a self-described colleague of Pierce’s named Brody Womack told NPR reporter Tom Dreisbach in a statement that Pierce was in the hospital for symptoms he thought might have been COVID-related, but were in fact the result of “dehydration and exhaustion.” (Womack, who was unable to be reached by The Daily Beast, has a commercial driver’s license but no law license, according to a public records search of his name.) The day before, Marshall told the judge in another case that Pierce had been in an accident of some sort, and was on his way to the hospital at that time. Later, a source close to Pierce said he had been hospitalized but insisted that he was not on a ventilator.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mystery-of-john-pierce-jan-6-lawyer-who-suddenly-vanished

He seems nice.

[Kittycatkat]

1. Didn't really vanish. Yet.

[bottomofthehill]

2. I hope the judge got the name of the hospital and checked

These people are such fucking liars I would not believe a word that came from them.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes it is easy to verify. Don't know why it is a mystery if he is in the hospital.

[Marcuse]

3. The desperation of an unprepared student on the morning of the exam.

[3Hotdogs]

4. My dog. My fukin' dog, your Honor. I was all prepared to file my brief...

then my fukin' dog....

[Marcuse]

6. He sees what's happening to Ghouliani and the Kracken.