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babylonsister

(171,021 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 07:45 AM Feb 2021

Court Gives 'Proud' Capitol Rioter Permission to Go on Mexico Vacation Before Trial



https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenny-cudd-proud-capitol-rioter-given-permission-to-go-on-mexico-vacation-before-trial

Court Gives ‘Proud’ Capitol Rioter Permission to Go on Mexico Vacation Before Trial

TREAT YO SELF
Jamie Ross
Reporter
Published Feb. 03, 2021 5:38AM ET
U.S. District Court


You might have burst out laughing this week at the sheer audacity of the Capitol rioter who asked a federal court to let her go ahead and enjoy a Mexican vacation she booked prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection. However, she’s had the last laugh, as the request has actually been granted. On Monday, lawyers for Jenny Louise Cudd asked for the court’s blessing for her to leave the U.S. and travel to Mexico’s Riviera Maya for a “work-related bonding retreat” that she had already paid for. According to USA Today, a U.S. magistrate has approved the request and ordered that her pretrial travel restrictions be changed to allow for the trip. Cudd is on pretrial release after being charged with misdemeanor offenses related to the Jan. 6 riot. She published a Facebook video after the riot in which she boasted about breaking down the door of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and declared: “Fuck yes, I am proud of my actions.”
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kentuck

(111,035 posts)
3. And what was her grievance against the United States?
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:01 AM
Feb 2021

That she felt so wronged that she was ready to kill people and burn down our Capitol?

vercetti2021

(10,155 posts)
5. So essentially shes gonna try to stay in Mexico
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:08 AM
Feb 2021

Good luck with that. They'll most likely extradite her back.

Croney

(4,656 posts)
7. She'll come back. She's proud of what she did,
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:14 AM
Feb 2021

and still thinks she's entitled to rewards and worship for doing it. Delusions are hard to kill.

uponit7771

(90,300 posts)
9. "after being charged with misdemeanor offenses " Why isn't the FBI charging her with felony ....
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:36 AM
Feb 2021

... tresspassing.

Somethings wrong here with so many of these people being let go

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DeminPennswoods

(15,264 posts)
10. For whatever reason, local judges are allowing those charged
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:40 AM
Feb 2021

to be released pre-trial. Federal prosecutors have then had to go to the DC federal court to have those decisions overturned.

Jirel

(2,003 posts)
12. Nothing wrong with this except...
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:48 AM
Feb 2021

You won’t find any judges agreeing to this for 99% of defendants, especially those with less money and more melanin. In reality, most misdemeanor defendants are not a fight risk, not even crackpot conspiracy-theorists involved in a coup. Very, very few people are going to jump bail, much less ditch their entire lives as spend years or decades on the run, to avoid a possible short jail sentence that might even get CWOP’d. The usual pre-trial restriction for relatively minor charges is often paranoid at best, oppressive at worst. The only reason this is worth a mention is that the privilege here is pretty astounding, when you look at what most misdemeanor defendants have to deal with.

msfiddlestix

(7,270 posts)
13. Dad Burn It. It so annoying when the article doesn't mention location or
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:52 AM
Feb 2021

or in this case, which Federal Court, and the name of the Magistrate.

I hope another court intervenes and blocks this approval.

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