Jury Convicts Conservative Attorney After Judge Refuses to Allow His Evidence and Witnesses
We think in the U.S. that a jury will provide us a fair trial despite the left dominating the legal system. But what if the judge doesn’t allow the jury to see all the evidence, including testimony from key witnesses? That is what happened a little over a week ago in a criminal trial against conservative attorney Jeffrey Moffatt, where he was facing up to 105 years in prison merely for checking the wrong box.
Moffatt was targeted by the State Bar of Arizona and disbarred, likely because he and his wife, Star, ran for office in California as Republicans. He’d sent an inappropriate message to a woman — who was not a client — and despite the fact that other attorneys who had done far worse, such as having sex with clients — were barely given a slap on the wrist, the bar’s disciplinary judge disbarred him.
Moffatt’s main line of work was helping disabled people obtain benefits from the Social Security Administration, something anyone can do, you do not need to be an attorney. However, when he inadvertently checked the wrong box on the SSA forms stating that he was a licensed attorney, something he’d routinely done for years, rogue federal prosecutors under the Biden administration filed felony charges against him.
Moffatt was likely targeted by prosecutors because he was a whistleblower. In 2017, he reported the head of SSA, Nancy Berryhill, for being improperly seated, since she was never........
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