New Video Footage Could Be Legal Magic for ‘QAnon Shaman’

Previously unseen footage shines a spotlight on Attorney General Garland’s duty to disclose evidence in possession of the government.

AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file
Supporters of President Trump, including Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file

Attorney General Garland, in the wake of the disclosures of footage from government cameras showing the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, being guided through the Capitol by uniformed police on January 6, 2021, has an obligation to bring, if he hasn’t done so already, the evidence to the attention of Chansley’s lawyers and the court.

That is the opinion of one of America’s leading defense lawyers, Harvey Silverglate of Boston. “It is the legal obligation of the attorney general,” he told the Sun in an interview this morning, to furnish all material footage from the January 6 riot to those charged for their actions that day. 

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