Alleged Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell had a 'death list' Non-tweet version
Alleged Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell had a 'death list' including the name of an election official and their family. His lawyers say it's a 'doodle pad.'
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
Jul 30, 2022, 1:13 AM
An Oath Keeper from Idaho in Bozeman, Montana.
https://www.businessinsider.com/oath-keeper-thomas-caldwell-death-list-name-of-election-official-2022-7
An alleged Oath Keeper was charged with sedition following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Police discovered Thomas Caldwell had a 'death list' that included the name of a Georgia election official.
Caldwell's lawyer argued the list was part of a "doodle pad" that should be excluded from evidence.
While searching alleged Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell's home following the attack on the US Capitol just three days prior, police found a "death list" that included the name of a Georgia election official and their family member.
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"From the search, law enforcement recovered a document that included the words "DEATH LIST" hand-written across the top with the name of a Georgia election official, a purported family member of that official, and the county and state associated with that official all hand-written underneath," read the government's motion regarding trial evidence.
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"This document is not a 'list' but, rather, a doodle pad. The words 'death list' are written in all caps, whereas the balance of writing on the doodle pad is written in upper and lower case letters," read the defense's motion to exclude the note pad evidence.
"Moreover, the words 'death list' are separated from the names of the election workers by scribbled writing, and were clearly written with a different pen. There are no other names on the 'list,' because it is not a list. Importantly, the names written on the doodle pad were not, as the Government claims, election 'officials' but, rather, temporary election workers."
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This guy is the worst of the worst.
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The court ruled on this matter on September 6, 2022:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.239218/gov.uscourts.dcd.239218.288.0.pdf
First, the defendants are charged with a conspiracy relating to disrupting a proceeding in the US Congress. The "death list" has the name of a Georgia official and a relative. That does not inherently relate to a conspiracy to disrupt a proceeding in the US Congress. Trials aren't about establishing whether someone is a "bad person", they are about establishing that the person committed the acts constituting the crime with which they've been charged. That is the essence of Rule 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
First the government filed a motion to bring in the death list (and a whole bunch of other stuff) here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.239211/gov.uscourts.dcd.239211.187.0_1.pdf
Caldwell objected to use of the "death list" in a document apparently not on the public docket and the government replied as follows, including a picture of the "death list" here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.239208/gov.uscourts.dcd.239208.251.0.pdf
Okay, so the "death list" is Ruby Freeman and her daughter.
So, the argument was not about whether it was a "doodle pad", the argument was about the relevance of a "death list" consisting of two persons in Georgia, to the crime charged concerning actions taken in DC.
The OP is a story from July.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.239218/gov.uscourts.dcd.239218.288.0.pdf
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