In Addition To Charging / Trial Counsel Acting AUSA Robert E. McGuire, Who Else Might Testify -- In Nashville Next Week? Abrego Vindictiveness Hearings -- Before USDC Judge Crenshaw...

Welp. This will be a. . . whole plateful of prosecutorial. . . nonsense.

The Noemites will argue that *no one* above Mr. McGuire made the decision [nor influenced him -- it was an "immaculate" indictment!] in late Spring 2025 to indict Mr. Abrego Garcia. McGuire will claim that he was blissfully unaware that all his political appointee superiors in DC were making incendiary (and uniformly false) public statements about Mr. Abrego Garcia, even as they held him wrongfully in a torture prison in El Salvador for over two months.

McGuire will tell the court that since he personally holds no pre-existing animus toward the accused, no court may look into the motives of his bosses in DC. [Nor may the court inquire (i.e., look behind this improbable veil) as to whether/if his bosses tried to "guide" him to seek an indictment.]

That -- on its face -- is preposterous, and in direct contradiciton of well-settled black letter federal law on the rules of criminal procedure -- and federal rules of evidence.

So it will all be. . . a tragic comedy/farce, on the stand, likely played out over about 10 total hours in court. But then, somewhere in the middle, Sean Hecker will have his chance to cross examine all of the below, and admit against them, the false statements made in public by their bosses (some of them made IN DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE, at a press availability -- by Kristi Noem herself -- clearly, to taint any future jury!) -- as well as by at least six high level Trump-appointees, elsewhere in DC.

Here you go:

. . .Supervisory Special Agent John VanWie, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI): the United States anticipates that Agent VanWie, who worked for HSI -- Baltimore, will testify regarding his decision to reopen the investigation into the defendant’s. . . activities on April 17, 2025 [from a 2022 TN traffic stop];

Special Agent In Charge Rana Saoud, Homeland Security Investigations: the United States anticipates that Agent Saoud, who supervised the HSI -- Nashville office, on the commencement of the investigation into the defendant’s. . . activities by HSI – Nashville; [and Condor notes that Mr. Hecker will likely call the man and former Chief Crim. Div. AUSA at lower right, who resigned rather than bring this case -- also, a long-standing Vanderbilt U. law professor...]

[Tennessee State] Trooper Joshua Brawner, Tennessee Highway Patrol: the United States anticipates that Trooper Brawner will testify about why he initially pulled over the defendant’s vehicle on interstate I-40 on November 30, 2022 [Condor observes: no tickets were issued; no one was detained; Mr. Abrego Garcia was sent on his way within 45 minutes that evening on I-40 -- and that is a full three years ago, now -- as the sole justification to "reopen" this matter!]. . . .

Noem herself continued, well into the summer, to lie, in public -- even about what the accused had been charged with -- making it out to be a far more serious -- and false -- set of charges. Dammit -- that alone ought to warrant a dismissal. But Mr. Hecker seeks subpoenas for the testimony of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Acting Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General McHenry, and Associate Deputy Attorney General Singh (and Kristi Noem), in any event.

So we will see you there -- and you will see in-court live blogging both days, right here: on the 4^th and 5^th. Onward -- but it is possible (albeit unlikely) that Judge Crenshaw simply dismisses the indictment at the counsel-only pre-hearing tomorrow, on Halloween -- Friday, October 31, 2025, at 1:00 p.m., given that the government has failed to turn over essentially any evidence -- to Mr. Hecker -- to rebut the now clear vindictiveness evidence, in the record. We shall see.

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