As her lawyer quits, Biden accuser Tara Reade’s credibility is challenged by lawyers whose clients she testified against as an expert witness

By Matt Viser and Michael Scherer May 22, 2020 at 6:24 p.m. CDT

Several California defense attorneys said Friday that they would attempt to overturn criminal convictions that relied upon testimony from Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, because she may have provided false information under oath.

During testimony in Monterey County court cases in which she was called as an expert on domestic violence, Reade said that she had received a bachelor's degree from Antioch University, had never taken the bar exam after graduating from law school and had been a legislative assistant in Biden’s office. Those claims have since been documented as false or been called into doubt in stories published since she made her accusation against Biden.

Roland Soltesz and law partner William V. Pernik said they will seek to overturn the conviction of their client, who they have not yet been able to contact as she serves a life sentence in prison after being convicted of arson in a trial in which Reade testified as a witness.

“I am going to subpoena every one of her academic records, so this thing is coming to court one way or another,” Soltesz said.

Pernik said he has been contacting appellate attorneys to try to overturn the conviction. “We didn’t look at it from a political angle, we looked at it from the angle of this is scandal that is going to hit our small county,” he said.

The review of the cases, which was first reported by the Monterey County Weekly, came as the attorney who had been representing Reade in her claim against Biden said Friday that his firm decided to no longer work with her as a client.

Douglas Wigdor had represented several other plaintiffs during the #MeToo era, including victims who said they were harassed by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and film producer Harvey Weinstein.

“Our firm no longer represents Tara Reade,” Wigdor said in a statement Friday morning. He said that the decision was made Wednesday and that it “is by no means a reflection on whether then-Senator Biden sexually assaulted Ms. Reade.”

Biden has vehemently denied the claims made by Reade, who worked for him for eight months as a staff assistant in his Senate office.

In the statement, Wigdor continued to defend Reade and did not offer an explanation for why his firm decided to stop representing her. Reade did not respond to a request for comment.

Wigdor, who has donated to President Trump but said his own political affiliation did not impact the cases he pursued, declined to comment beyond the statement. His firm has been representing her pro bono for two weeks.

“We also believe that to a large extent Ms. Reade has been subjected to a double standard in terms of the media coverage she has received,” he said. “Much of what has been written about Ms. Reade is not probative of whether then-Senator Biden sexually assaulted her, but rather is intended to victim-shame and attack her credibility on unrelated and irrelevant matters.

“We genuinely wish Ms. Reade well and hope that she, as a survivor, is treated fairly. We have and will continue to represent survivors regardless of their alleged predator’s status or politics.”

Reade said she was handing a gym bag to Biden in a corridor near the Senate office in 1993 when he pushed her against a wall and digitally penetrated her. In 2019, she said Biden had sexually harassed her; this spring she publicly leveled the assault accusation for the first time.

Her accusations have triggered several in-depth examinations of Biden’s office during that time period, as well as of Reade’s own background. Several stories examined testimony that she has given in recent years, in which she spoke under oath as an expert on domestic violence.

In a recent interview about her courtroom experience with the Monterey County Weekly, she described her work for prosecutors as a type of public service.

“It is an important community service for me,” she said. “It’s a way I channel the restorative justice piece, through helping other people. I explain cycles of abuse. I talk about the cycles of violence.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-accuser-tara-reades-attorney-says-they-have-parted-ways/2020/05/22/92c38da4-9c3f-11ea-a2b3-5c3f2d1586df_story.html

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She was repeatedly used by the district attorney in cases where victims of domestic violence had changed their stories, complicating the prosecution’s case. She would explain to the jury that such recantations were common given the emotional dynamics of dysfunctional relationships, suggesting that the initial stories of violence could still be credible even if the testimony at trial was contradictory.

That was the case in the December 2018 trial of two women accused of arson, in which Reade was brought to the stand by the prosecution to explain why a witness to the alleged events had changed his story from saying he had seen two women running from the scene to saying he had witnessed two men, according to Soltesz, the attorney for one of the women.

“She came in and did this whole song and dance about how he was a victim of domestic violence as well and why he would change his story,” Soltesz recalled. “He testified in court that it wasn’t these girls.”

Scott Erdbacher, the attorney for the second convicted defendant in the case, said he remembers Reade’s testimony as a pivotal part of the prosecution because she helped to explain why the primary witness to the crime had changed his story. The jury appeared to find his first version more persuasive when it convicted the women.

“I’m always concerned when an expert witness testifies falsely, and we are looking into filing a petition for habeas corpus,” Erdbacher said, describing a type of appeal that would challenge his client’s imprisonment.

Attempts to reach Monterey County prosecutors Friday were not successful.

Open the Pools

Let the Kids Swim!

—chlorine and other disinfectants, at standard pool concentrations, do an excellent job of killing this coronavirus, like its better-studied predecessors, including, notably, the polio virus.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/pool-probably-safe-its-people-you-need-to-worry-about-cvd/

The Attempt to Destroy George Papadopoulos

#OBAMAgate | Part 2 | Ep. 38

Rudy W. Giuliani

In episode 38 of Common Sense, we sit down with Former Policy Advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, George Papadopoulos, for part 2 in which he outlines the events that took place in the attempt to frame him.

Black Entertainment TV Founder Says Biden Should Spend The Rest Of Campaign Apologizing

May 22, 2020 By Tristan Justice

Black Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Robert Johnson condemned former Vice President Joe Biden following comments from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Friday claiming that if black voters are still undecided, then they aren’t black.

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” Biden said on “The Breakfast Club” podcast.

“VP Biden’s statement today represents the arrogant and out-of-touch attitude of a paternalistic white candidate who has the audacity to tell Black people, the descendants of slaves, that they are not Black unless they vote for him,” Johnson said in a statement to Fox News. “This proves unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that Black people owe him their vote without question; even though, we as Black people know it is exactly the opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every Black person he meets.”

BET is the largest cable network dedicated to a black audience.

Biden’s remarks also drew swift condemnation from conservatives shaming the comments as offensive.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott chastised Biden’s words as “the most arrogant, outrageous comment that I’ve heard in a very long time,” but also said he was unsurprised, given Biden’s hand in crafting the 1994 crime bill as a Delaware senator leading the Judiciary Committee.

Biden, Scott said, sponsored the legislation that “jailed more African-American males than any other legislation.”

“And President Trump comes along, and through his criminal justice reform, corrects the absolute mistakes made by Joe Biden; 1.3 million African-Americans voted for Trump. He’s saying to 1.3 million African-Americans that you are not black? Who in the heck does he think he is?”

Former Utah Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, who now works as a CNN political commentator, also issued a sharp rebuke over Biden’s comments, labeling them as “racist.”

“It’s incredibly offensive to hear this kind of rhetoric from anyone, let alone the presumptive nominee of the Democrat party,” Love wrote on Twitter. “Joe Biden’s comments were racist and an affront to the millions of African Americans who voted Republican in 2016.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/22/black-entertainment-tv-founder-says-biden-should-spend-the-rest-of-campaign-apologizing/

>>9281902

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>>9281915

Yea, this was one ((they)) really can't ignore. But some are trying, lol. What a bunch of four-flushers.

>>9281958

#livemaskfree

#masksofopression

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#maskoff

>>9281973

Too bad this isn't true!

Michelle Obama Just Tried To Register To Run For President But Was DENIED!

Michelle Obama tried to register to run for President in 2020 with the Secretary of State’s office this morning, the first step on a long to-do list to get a person on the ballot.

Once certified as a potential candidate, the process of gathering signatures and getting on the ballots in the individual states begins. The State Department’s only job is to make sure that the candidate meets the three constitutional requirements to be president.

The first she meets easily. She is over thirty-five-years-old. The second she also meets having been born in the United Sates.

The third requirement, one few people think about, is where she came up short. You must be a resident “within the united states” for 14 years before you’re eligible. Why she doesn’t qualify is partly how she was raised but mostly of her own doing.

As a child, Michelle Obama’s legal residence was in the British Virgin Islands. Her parents kept it that way so she would be eligible for immigrant status and special consideration for schooling.

Between birth and age 22, when she graduated college, Michelle Obama had only racked up two years of legal, US residency.

After college, in order to avoid paying taxes, she kept an address in the Cayman Islands from which she filed all of her tax returns. Therefore, none of the years between the time she graduated and the time she became First Lady count either.

While in the White House, the Obamas filed joint returns, giving her another seven years of residency. At nine years of residency, she is ineligible to be president.

She will qualify in 2021, meaning she will miss the next cycle and we won’t have to watch her campaign for the next four years.

What a relief. The thought of listening to her speak eloquently and be all “politically correct” and empathetic to the plight of “average Americans” (AKA welfare freeloaders) would have caused a wave of nausea across the country.

https://www.usapoliticstoday.org/michelle-obama-register-run-president-denied/

https://www.usapoliticstoday.org/michelle-obama-register-run-president-denied/

>>9282047

Dude, I put in BOLD "TOO BAD THIS ISN'T TRUE" at the top, whaddya want from me???????

>>9282086

Take it easy, Freddy/Karen. I don't see you complaining about all the other horrible, gross, disgusting, filthy, insane carp that gets posted on here. I'll answer who I want, when I want!