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WND By Trevor Schakohl Daily Caller News Foundation 4/20/2023

Prosecutors played footage from 'unidentified' source

Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers improperly brought forward new pieces of footage as evidence during a Jan. 6 defendant’s cross-examination at trial, without giving the defense enough time to review them, the defendant’s attorney alleged Thursday.

Zachary Rehl testified between April 11 and Tuesday in his ongoing trial with other former Proud Boys members for allegedly conspiring to oppose the January 2021 transfer of presidential power, along with related charges. Minutes before cross-examining Rehl Monday, the government revealed two U.S. Capitol CCTV videos, a body camera clip and an open source video, using the last one to question Rehl without immediately admitting they received it recently from a yet-unidentified source, Rehl’s attorney Carmen Hernandez said in a Thursday court filing.

The DOJ attorneys also used the first piece of body camera footage and a second one introduced Tuesday to cross-examine Rehl, despite neither of those videos having been previously provided in discovery, Hernandez claimed, calling them “particularly grainy and unclear.” In one of the body camera videos, Rehl allegedly lifted a pepper spray device near police officers on Jan. 6, while Hernandez argued the footage was “particularly unstable” at that moment.

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