Defense attorney in conspiracy case cites Guardian reporting in seeking police messages on activists opposed to training center
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It is unclear if the official is not telling the truth, or doesn’t know how the arresting agencies in his office’s effort to prosecute 61 people tied to opposition against Cop City communicate with each other.
The revelation came in a Fulton county superior court conference for prosecuting and defense attorneys to hash out details in the state’s pending Rico – or criminal conspiracy – case centered on Cop City.
Fulton county superior court judge Kimberly M Esmond Adams said on Tuesday she planned to start trials in the Rico case before the year’s end, with five defendants at a time.
Based on emails obtained through open records requests, that story established how top Atlanta police officials began setting up Signal groups in early 2023 to discuss Cop City.
“It is implausible that there are no relevant witness statements contained on these large-scale, inter-agency Signal group threads designed to communicate about the Cop City protests,” the 15 March motion reads.
“In the indictment of this case, the State itself chose to include the use of the Signal messaging platform as alleged inculpatory evidence against the defendants’ purported ‘enterprise’,” the motion reads.
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Probably asks and is told with no verification. His underlings know for sure and I am sure he does to with a wink and a nod.
