'QAnon shaman' says former lawyer failed him over Jan. 6 videos

[Eugene]

Source: Politico

‘QAnon shaman’ says former lawyer failed him over Jan. 6 videos

New attorney for Jacob Chansley says footage paints his conduct at Capitol in a more favorable light.

By JOSH GERSTEIN
04/28/2023 12:05 AM EDT

An eccentric Arizona man whose facepaint, fur stole, bare chest and bizarre headdress made him one of the best-known figures in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is asking to be resentenced, saying his former lawyer failed to adequately investigate video footage indicating that, at times, police officers seemed to ease his movements through the Capitol that day.

A new attorney for Jacob Chansley, more often called the “QAnon shaman,” filed a motion Thursday night asking that Chansley’s almost three-and-a-half-year prison sentence be set aside because of “ineffective assistance” from his prior counsel, Albert Watkins, in connection with the video issue.

Chansley’s motion, filed by former federal prosecutor William Shipley, says Watkins should have sought to postpone Chansley’s sentencing in November 2021 after prosecutors signaled that they planned to show Capitol Police closed-circuit surveillance video at that proceeding.


“The filing of a notice of intent to use CCTV video should have caused Attorney Watkins to request that sentencing be postponed in order to obtain from the government all video evidence of Mr. Chansley from inside the Capitol,” Shipley wrote. “By not securing the video and determining whether it supported Mr. Chansley’s description of events, Attorney Watkins allowed the Government to take liberties in describing Mr. Chansley’s conduct while inside the Capitol, without fear of the unproduced videos contradicting the Government’s claims.”

Chansley pleaded guilty in September 2021 to obstruction of an official proceeding.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/28/qanon-shaman-january-6-videos-00094370

[Comfortably_Numb]

1. Fucker Carlson is the curse that keeps on cursing. Traitor making excuses for traitors.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. He's out of prison early. He should just admit his guilt and go on.

[Javaman]

5. his ego prevents that.

I bet he's actually looking into exoneration.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. And even worse, the jail ran out of his favorite brand of tofu.

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered corrections authorities to provide organic food to an Arizona man accused of participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns.

The order came after a lawyer for defendant Jacob Chansley complained that his client had gone the past nine days without eating because organic food isn’t served at the Washington jail where he’s housed.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-man-gets-organic-food-jail-198eccc02b8173f4e5071ca342250518

[Scrivener7]

4. Each one of these guys who went in front of their judges and wept and

groveled and promised they had changed are now getting all militant and self-righteous again, now that they're out of jail.