MN - Journalist Don Lemon arrested for church protest, Minneapolis, 18 Jan 2026

[Betty P]

SCOTUS said it in Branzburg, very broadly.

Face it, Lemon is squeezed.

MOO

We don't know that until it goes before a judge. Why don't we wait until then.

 

[Inthedetails]

Reminder for arraignment date, bbm:

Federal Judge Douglas Micko on [last] Wednesday ordered Lemon and Philadelphia student Jerome Richardson, who helped Lemon cover the demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, to appear at 1 p.m. (noon ET) on February 13. ...

Following arraignment, the court will set a schedule for pretrial motions Attorneys could challenge aspects of the case via motions to dismiss or to suppress evidence, based on standard federal criminal procedure.

Don Lemon handed new arraignment date by federal judge

Judge changes the date for former CNN host Don Lemon to appear in federal court.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Inthedetails]

Reminder for arraignment date, bbm:

Federal Judge Douglas Micko on [last] Wednesday ordered Lemon and Philadelphia student Jerome Richardson, who helped Lemon cover the demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, to appear at 1 p.m. (noon ET) on February 13. ...

Following arraignment, the court will set a schedule for pretrial motions Attorneys could challenge aspects of the case via motions to dismiss or to suppress evidence, based on standard federal criminal procedure.

Don Lemon handed new arraignment date by federal judge

Judge changes the date for former CNN host Don Lemon to appear in federal court.

www.newsweek.com

What happens at an arraignment in Federal court:

The defendant enters a plea to the charges brought by the U.S. attorney at a hearing known as an arraignment. The defendant is read or given a copy of the charge and is asked to plead guilty or not guilty. Typically at an arraignment, a defendant enters a plea of not guilty. The Court will then set a docket call/jury trial date in accordance with the Speedy Trial Act.

https://mie.fd.org/clients-and-families/federal-court-process

 

[witchway]

dbm

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

SCOTUS said it in Branzburg, very broadly.

Face it, Lemon is squeezed.

MOO

Bookmarking for reply at a later date.

 

[Inthedetails]

District chief judge Schiltz (Bush appointee) was asked by the DOJ to rule on a previous judge's denial of the case. In response, he wrote, bbm:


The government lumps all eight protestors together and says things that are true of some but not all of them. Two of the five protestors were not protestors at all; instead, they were a journalist and his producer. There is no evidence that those two engaged in any criminal behavior or conspired to do so. ....

The government does not explain why the arrests of five more people – one of whom is a journalist and the other his producer – would make Cities Church any safer...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca8.113669/gov.uscourts.ca8.113669.00805439055.0.pdf

p.s. This comment is about the case against Don Lemon, not the protestors.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

Bookmarking for reply at a later date.

Thank you, I will be doing the sane thing.

 

[Inthedetails]

Minnesota Court Rules: Professional Conduct. bbm

Rule 3.6: Trial Publicity

A lawyer who is participating or has participated in the investigation or litigation of a criminal matter shall not make an extrajudicial statement about the matter that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know will be disseminated by means of public communication and will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing a jury trial in a pending criminal matter.



Despite the clear rules of conduct, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon re-posted on a public platform a comment that included, "Nobody is above the law. Especially not today's klansmen-like Don Lemon-who storm churches and terrorize Christians."

 

[J. J. in Phila]

Minnesota Court Rules: Professional Conduct. bbm

Rule 3.6: Trial Publicity

A lawyer who is participating or has participated in the investigation or litigation of a criminal matter shall not make an extrajudicial statement about the matter that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know will be disseminated by means of public communication and will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing a jury trial in a pending criminal matter.



Despite the clear rules of conduct, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon re-posted on a public platform a comment that included, "Nobody is above the law. Especially not today's klansmen-like Don Lemon-who storm churches and terrorize Christians."

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That is actually in the indictment, as to storming a church. The law was originally directed at the KKK.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

We don't know that until it goes before a judge. Why don't we wait until then.

Because no one else is.