What to know, alibiers, welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis. I'm Gigi. It's Saturday,

October 11th. I hope you guys are having a good weekend so far. I wanted to dive into this new

motion to dismiss the indictment against Sheriff Mickey Steins, who was caught on camera shooting

Judge Mullins in his chambers. This is a very interesting filing to me.

I've been curious as to his state of mind leading up to the shooting, and we're kind of getting

a glimpse of that in this filing. So let's jump right in. They cite prosecutor misconduct at the

grand jury proceedings as their reason for dismissing this indictment.

Specifically, the Commonwealth violated the defendant's constitutional rights and elicited

false and misleading testimony which prejudiced the defendant and tainted the grand jury proceedings.

The statement, bade by Detective Stamper that the defendant was in his

sane mind as false and intentionally misleading and prejudicial to the defendant. An indictment

returned by a legally constituted and unbiased grand jury, if valid, on its face, is enough to

call for a trial of charge on the merits. However, dismissal

of an indictment by a trial court is appropriate if it's established that a violation

substantially influenced the grand jury's decision to indict, or if there's grave doubt,

the decision to indict was free from the substantial influence of

such violations.

And in the footnotes, they're just signing cases that they're referring to.

They go through a couple of cases where the grand jury indictment was dismissed due to prosecutors

in those respective cases, eliciting false testimony.

In the case at Barr, the Commonwealth elicited, and Detective

Clayton Stamper testified to multiple false statements before the grand jury. This testimony

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