Judge turns focus of Whitmer-kidnap trial to entrapment
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The focus of a trial in Michigan has quickly turned to the...
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The focus of a trial in Michigan has quickly turned to the...
Lawyers for four men standing trial on charges they planned to break into Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home and kidnap her at gunpoint said…
GRAND RAPIDS — Prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday played covertly recorded audio for jurors in which one of the men specifically discussing a plan to abduct the Democrat.In the recording, made during a meeting in…
“They knew it was stoned-crazy talk and not a plan,” a defense attorney said, referring to the FBI. At one point, the attorney said the defendant's state of mind included coming up with a plan to put the governor on a kite to transport her.
Prosecutors have played covertly recorded audio for jurors in which a man charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer specifically mentions abducting the Democrat. In the recording