Patriot Front members are placed under arrest in Idaho. / IMAGE: @MrAndyNgo ( Ken Silva , Headline USA ) An Idaho judge dismissed on Friday the state’s case against a Patriot Front member accused of conspiring to riot at an LGBT demonstration last year, finding that a prosecutor acted in “bad faith” by failing to provide the defendant with possibly exculpatory evidence.
Judge Destry Randles’s order stems from the incident in June 2022, when 31 members of the right-wing nationalist group were arrested after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army” at a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene.
Five of the Patriot Front defendants were convicted of misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to riot last month, while the group’s leader, Thomas Rousseau , is set to stand trial on Sept. 22.
But the Patriot Front’s Richard Jessop is now in the clear after Judge Randle dismissed […]
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