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Trump's Prosecutors FAIL MISERABLY to WIN ONE CASE in LA
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April 10, 2026
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12:04Now PlayingAttorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the collapse of federal protest prosecutions in Los Angeles, where Trump's U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli has charged over 100 people tied to anti-ICE protests — and hasn't won a single assault-on-a-federal-officer case at trial. Judge André Birotte Jr., a former U.S. Attorney himself, threw out the case against two protesters after discovering prosecutors had withheld over 100 documents mid-trial — a Brady violation so egregious the judge called it "amateur hour" and "not ready for prime time." In a separate courtroom the same day, a jury acquitted Luis Hipolito in under four hours after he testified that masked, unidentified federal agents looked like bounty hunters trying to kidnap a woman, and he intervened in self-defense. Brian and Shant — who practice in these very courtrooms — explain why these losses are extraordinary for an office that historically only takes cases it can win, why masked agents without clear identification create impossible credibility problems for prosecutors, and how the concept of jury nullification may be playing out in real time as LA juries refuse to convict people for standing up to what looks more like state-sponsored intimidation than law enforcement.
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