Pence’s exact location on Jan 6 becomes central after DOJ misleads judge, Secret Service is grilled

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Pence’s exact location on Jan 6 becomes central after DOJ misleads judge, Secret Service is grilled
March 21, 2022 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

The second trial of a January 6th protester is focusing on former Vice President Mike Pence’s whereabouts during the breach at the Capitol after a judge ruled that the defendant being tried can grill the Secret Service over his exact location.

Couy Griffin, the leader of Cowboys for Trump who is on trial for taking part in the protest, wants to use Pence’s location as the focal point of his defense Monday. He’s been given the nod by the judge to question the Secret Service over it, according to Politico.

He contends that Pence was evacuated off Capitol grounds to a secure location and that it was outside a Secret Service perimeter established to protect the vice president.

Griffin is being charged with breaching a Secret Service-protected zone. Prosecutors claim that his assertion that Pence was not there is nonsense. They contend that he was within the Capitol complex during the riot while also asserting that it is irrelevant if he left since the trespassing law Griffin is charged with only requires that Pence intended to return.

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Secret Service confirms Pence was taken to underground loading dock on Jan. 6

The Secret Service escorted former Vice President Mike Pence to an underground loading dock during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, where he waited with his wife and daughter for around five hours.

During a Monday trial for "Cowboys for Trump" and New Mexico county commissioner Couy Griffin, Secret Service inspector Lanelle Hawa testified that Pence was evacuated from the Senate chamber around 2:26 p.m. and taken to a loading dock underneath the Senate plaza, The Washington Post reported.

Griffin, the second Jan. 6 rioter to head to trial, faces charges of disorderly conduct and entering and remaining in a restricted building. At trial, prosecutors are trying to prove whether Griffin knowingly and willfully trespassed when a pro-President Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the certification of the 2020 election.

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