{"id":18597,"date":"2023-09-30T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=18597"},"modified":"2023-09-30T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:46:20","slug":"the-erosion-of-due-process-exposing-the-fbis-latest-disregard-for-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=18597","title":{"rendered":"The Erosion of Due Process: Exposing the FBI\u2019s Latest Disregard for the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Note: This is a sponsored post from NewNoah. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of Gateway Pundit)<\/em><\/p>\n

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by Matt Palumbo<\/p>\n

Once again federal prosecutors are overstepping their bounds, this time attempting to introduce dubious evidence that shouldn\u2019t be admitted into court in a controversial case.<\/p>\n

For background, back in May 2022 the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of New York<\/a> announced the arrest of four men for murder for hire in connection to the slaying of Xin Gu, a 31-year-old Queens resident on February 12, 2019. The government charged Qing Ming Yu (also known as \u201cAllen Yu\u201d), Antony Abreu (\u201cAnthony\u201d), You You (Eddie) and Zhe Zhang (Zack).<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s case against Zhe Zhang specifically is entirely dependent on tainted evidence that was obtained improperly, which should render it inadmissible in court. For that reason, it\u2019s imperative that Zhang is given the opportunity to squash this \u201cevidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process to contest such evidence is known as a \u201cFranks hearing,\u201d named after a 1978 Supreme Court case. This hearing allows the defendant to challenge the truthfulness of statements made in an affidavit supporting a search warrant, where they must prove that the false statements were included \u201cintentionally or with reckless disregard for the truth\u201d \u2013 which we know the government does regularly, such as when the FBI lied to obtain search warrants<\/a> to surveil members of the Trump campaign. If the affidavits are invalid, so is any supposed evidence obtained from search warrants<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And as is apparent, false statements used for one affidavit for Zhang that should\u2019ve never been issued in the first place were then used to justify further search warrants on other properties of his. However, since they resulted from a tainted search warrant, any evidence obtained through them is also moot.<\/p>\n

The search warrant in question is from May 3 2021, (known as the CSLI warrant \u2013 for cell-site location) which the FBI executed. Most significantly, in the FBI\u2019s search warrant affidavit, they excluded crucial exculpatory evidence, namely that a witness named Carlos mentioned in several interviews that David Yu said he was the shooter, not Zhe Zhang.<\/p>\n

To give the mere appearance of fairness, the government has decided to no longer seek to introduce cell-site location evidence from Zhang\u2019s phone, which they claim makes Zhang\u2019s motion to suppress evidence moot. But that ignores the reality that the findings from the CSLI warrant were then used to justify two subsequent search warrants. In other words, they laundered the information illegally obtained from their first warrant to then cite it as \u201ccorroborating\u201d evidence, and \u201cindependent\u201d evidence of probable cause to prove Zhang\u2019s involvement in the case.<\/p>\n

The government hasn\u2019t indicated that it\u2019ll withdraw its application to withdraw supposed evidence from a warrant for Zhang\u2019s instagram account (in March 2022), and a warrant for his premises (May 9, 2022). Zhang\u2019s lawyers agree that the motion to suppress would be moot if this information was also excluded. If the government were to withdraw them, then argue the motion to suppress would be moot \u2013 but they have not yet.<\/p>\n

A warrant for both Zhang\u2019s Instagram account and personal property were derived from the CSLI warrant.<\/p>\n

Above all else, the government\u2019s decision to not introduce evidence directly from the CSLI warrant is proof that they know it\u2019s inadmissible<\/em>. After all, the government would never voluntarily weaken their case. Yet, the government finds themselves in a cache 22; if the CSLI warrant is inadmissible, then so are any subsequent warrants dependent on it. The government can\u2019t escape this dilemma.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the prosecutors themselves seem to realize how flimsy their evidence is, as in a filing introducing evidence obtained from their tainted warrant of Zhang\u2019s Instagram account, they go out of their way to reference Rule 401, which imposes a \u201crelatively low bar\u201d for relevant evidence. What would the need for this be if their evidence was strong?<\/p>\n

It is evident that the government\u2019s evidence in Zhang\u2019s case is tainted. As has been meticulously demonstrated, the warrant in question was tainted by procedural errors and lacked the necessary probable cause, rendering it invalid under the law. In a system predicated on the principles of justice and the protection of individual rights, it is imperative that we uphold the integrity of search warrants to prevent unwarranted infringements on personal liberties. In this case, it is abundantly clear that the government did not meet that standard of integrity.<\/p>\n

About the author: Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros (2021), Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York (2020), Debunk This!: Shattering Liberal Lies (2019), and Spygate (2018).<\/em><\/p>\n

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