Steve Bannon, a former adviser to the Trump administration, has requested that the contempt of Congress charges against him be delayed because he feels that the House Select Committee hearings on January 6 have garnered too much media attention.
David Schoen, Robert Costello, and Evan Corcoran, Bannon’s attorneys, requested that the trial starts on October 25 rather than July 18 because they believed that the select committee’s scheduled series of hearings might influence the jury’s decisions.
“Public effect covers both the hearings’ actual results as well as the media coverage that increased their prominence.
The attorneys asserted that “everyone accused of a crime is granted a fair trial” by the constitution, adding that “everyone accused of a crime is granted a fair trial” by every major media outlet in Washington, D.C., where the trial will take place and the offences allegedly described in the indictment occurred.
According to the paper, panellists from the Jan. 6 conference made “inflammatory remarks” against Bannon and other former Trump administration officials, and their “purported results” were shown on television, especially to viewers in Washington, D.C. area.
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In the complaint, it was claimed that “those broadcasts have been packaged and re-broadcast in multiple forms, causing a saturation of the information sources available to Washington, D.C. people.” A continuance is required, given the circumstances, to give the effects of the Select Committee hearing coverage a time to subside.
Federal prosecutors charged Bannon with contempt after he ignored a subpoena from the select committee on January 6 and failed to turn over records. Last year, Bannon filed a not guilty plea to the accusations.
In their brief on Wednesday, Bannon’s attorneys noted that five Proud Boys organisation leaders’ prosecutions were delayed as a result of the hearings on January 6 because their lawyers argued that the aired proceedings impeded them from receiving a fair trial from an impartial jury.
The defence team said that the constitution guarantees “everyone accused of a crime a fair trial,” and that every significant media outlet in Washington, D.C., where the trial will take place and the alleged crimes detailed in the indictment allegedly occurred, also upholds this claim.
The panellists from the conference on January 6 allegedly made “inflammatory remarks” about Bannon and other former members of the Trump administration, and their “purported results” were shown on television, particularly to viewers in Washington, D.C., area.
On Tuesday, the panel held its sixth hearing of the month. The group will resume its work after the Fourth of July holiday.
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The focus of the hearings has been on former President Trump’s and his associates’ efforts to persuade crucial decision-makers to refuse to certify President Biden’s victory and to try to alter the results of the 2020 election.
Bannon’s attorney argued that the original trial date of July 18 was ambitious and suggested that the trial should start later in the year due to the House panel’s hearing schedule.
According to the attorneys, neither the Court nor the parties were aware of the Select Committee’s publicity blitz in June and the days leading up to July at the time the trial was scheduled.
