Friday, April 08, 2022

Report on the Status of the U.S. Energy Storage Project

By N.S.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-4-7-report-on-the-status-of-the-us-energy-storage-project



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Anonymous said...

Never going to work. Should not even be tried. Fuck the green. Go with we got and understand.

Friday, April 8, 2022 at 7:34:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

MEDIA DISAPPOINTED,FBI REBUKED BY VERDICTS IN WHITMER TRIAL

GRA:I thought I saw tears in the anchor's eyes today as this was read on local and national news.Holt sounded like Obama had died. The two defendants who took a plea deal-you wonder what they're thinking now.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A federal jury on Friday found two suspects not guilty in an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and on two others was not able to reach a verdict.

Brandon Caserta, 33, of Canton, and Daniel Harris, 34, of Lake Orion, were acquitted on all counts. The jury could not reach a unanimous decision in the cases of Barry Croft Jr., 46, of Bear, Delaware, and Adam Fox, 38, of metro Grand Rapids.

“Obviously, we’re disappointed at the outcome,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge said. “Thought we’d get the jury to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.”

A mistrial was declared for Croft and Fox. Birge said he will try them again.

“I appreciate the time the jury put into this. They listened to a lot of evidence, deliberated quite a bit,” Birge said. “We have two defendants awaiting trial. We will get back to work on that.”

There is no timeline yet on when that second trial could happen.



“I think that the trial here has demonstrated that there’s some serious shortcomings in the (government’s) case,” Fox’s attorney Christopher Gibbons told reporters outside the courthouse. “Obviously, with acquittals occurring with Mr. Caserta and Mr. Harris says a lot about what’s going on in the case, and the proofs.”

Caserta and Harris were free to go, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jonker said. As they read the verdicts, the family of Caserta gasped and embraced. Shortly after, when Harris’ verdict was released, his family, including father and mother, gasped, some of them in tears.

Outside the courthouse Friday afternoon, Caserta’s attorney said his client was “out … gone.”

“He’s just enjoying a walk down a sidewalk right now,” Mike Hills said.

He added that it was Caserta’s birthday.

“Best birthday present imaginable,” Hills said.

“I’m just glad he’s home,” one of Caserta’s relatives said.



Long deliberations bring hope to kidnapping conspiracy suspect’s father
Fox’s attorney said Fox was “disappointed” that he would remain behind bars pending a second trial.

“We’ll eventually get what we want out of this, which is the truth and the justice I think Adam is entitled to,” Gibbons said.

The jury of six men and six women deliberated in a federal courthouse in downtown Grand Rapids for 37 hours over the course of a week. On Friday morning, after being told that the jury had reached some decisions and was locked on others, the judge asked it to keep deliberating. He provided members some thought exercises about how to reach some insight on the issues that divide them. He said they should not change their minds simply to reach a decision.

The jury remained in the same spot Friday afternoon. Jonker told jurors to go back, confirm where they stood and decide whether there was a path forward. If they remained in the same place and there was no path forward, he said, they should announce their unanimous verdicts and indicate on which counts they were deadlocked.

They came back with their verdicts in only a few minutes..

--GRA

Friday, April 8, 2022 at 8:18:00 PM EDT

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