Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said she’ll ask the state’s Supreme Court to take up the cases.
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Become a member and back journalism that holds power accountable.for an act of terrorism. They, along with co-defendant Joe Morrison, were accused of having secondary roles in the scheme.in June in a precedent-setting decision. A different panel at the Michigan Court of Appeals said it was obligated to apply that ruling to Musico and Bellar as well. The convictions were overturned on technical grounds.
The appeals court said kidnapping is not an underlying violent felony that can support a conviction under Michigan’s terrorism law. Attorney General Dana Nessel called it “linguistic gymnastics” and said she would ask the Michigan Supreme Court to take up the cases. Morrison, Musico and Bellar were not charged with having a direct role in the plot to kidnap Whitmer.
Bellar had moved out of state weeks before themade arrests in October 2020, and Morrison and Musico said they, too, were no longer in contact with key figures. As part of the plot, Whitmer was supposed to be kidnapped her from her vacation home just before the 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors said the conspirators were furious over tough COVID-19 restrictions that Whitmer and officials in other states had put in place during the early months of the pandemic, as well as perceived threats to gun ownership. Whitmer, a Democrat, was never physically harmed. Undercover FBI agents and informants were inside Fox’s group for months, and the scheme was broken up.
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