Good they got him. From your -- Trump Aide Peter Navarro Loses Bid For New Trial, Faces Sentencing At End of the Month Story by Alex Griffing • 10h
US District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Navarro’s request for a new trial and shot down claims that the jury had somehow been prejudiced against him by witnessing protests in a nearby park.
“The evidence establishes that the jurors only interacted with each other and (Court Security officer Rosa) Torres in John Marshall Park,” Judge Mehta ruled, adding:
No one directed any words or displayed any signs at them. No one approached them. Moreover, the scene itself was relatively placid. There was no indiscriminate yelling or chanting. No one held a sign above their head. There were no activities resembling a ‘protest.’
Simply put, Defendant has failed to show that he was prejudiced in any way by the jury’s brief break in John Marshall Park.
Trump White House official Peter Navarro loses his bid for a new contempt of Congress trial
A federal judge has rejected a bid for a new trial for Peter Navarro, a Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press January 17, 2024, 6:33 AM
[...] Navarro was the second Trump aide to face contempt of Congress charges after former White House adviser Steve Bannon. Bannon was convicted of two counts and was sentenced to four months behind bars, though he has been free pending appeal.
Navarro has vowed to appeal the verdict, saying the “die was cast” after a judge ruled that he couldn’t fight the charges by arguing he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump, a Republican, had invoked executive privilege. Barred from relying on the executive privilege argument at trial, the defense argued that Navarro had not acted “willfully" in his failure to comply.
Navarro’s sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 25 in Washington's federal court. He was convicted of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress, both punishable by up to a year behind bars.
AI
