Zip-Tie Guy, and His Mommy, Allowed to Go Back Home Before Capitol Riot Trial
Source: daily beast
Updated Mar. 30, 2021 7:10AM ET /
The man who became notorious as zip-tie guy after chilling photographs from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol showed him clutching plastic handcuffs will be freed from jail ahead of his trial. Eric Munchel, 30, and his mom, Lisa Marie Eisenhart, 57, are both accused of trespassing at the Capitol and obstructing the confirmation of President Joe Bidens victory. According to the Washington Post, prosecutors decided Monday that the pair can await trial on home confinement in Tennessee. Judge Robert Wilkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wrote that Jan. 6 presented a unique opportunity to obstruct democracy, and he doesnt believe that Munchel and Eisenhart pose a significant threat outside of that one-off context. Federal agents have been investigating whether Munchel planned to take lawmakers hostage with his cuffs, but, so far, no evidence of such plans has emerged.
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dchill
(38,471 posts)...will not be unique if it happens again, Mr. Judge Person.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)Really? What the hell was he carrying zip-tie handcuffs for, then? Circumstantial evidence can be very powerful when there's only one reasonable conclusion that can be drawn from it. A "smoking gun" is circumstantial evidence.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)might not find them now
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)He'd be totally fucked then. Another example of our criminal injustice system hard at work.