“We are thrilled to be working with The Tennessee Star to bring this news to the world,” said Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO of StarNews Digital Media and editor of The Tennessee Star. Publication of documents The items the FBI was seeking to conceal or destroy were the suicide notes and psychopathic documents of a radical cross-dresser who murdered three children and three adults at a Nashville Christian school last year.
Stacey Cameron, a reporter for the local Fox News affiliate,
In effect, he was tipped off. After the Tennessee Star condemned the mainstream media’s refusal, Judge Lacia Miles of the Tennessee Chancery Court for the 20th Judicial District ordered Leahy to appear in court for a show-cause hearing.
The purpose of the hearing was to “determine why the publication of certain documents by petitioner Star Digital Media and its editor-in-chief Michael Leahy does not violate this Court’s order holding them in contempt of court and subjecting them to sanctions.”
Leahy and the Tennessee Star’s parent company argue that by releasing the documents before a judge in closed hearings, they may have thwarted a Metro Nashville Police Department lawsuit seeking full release of documents about transgender murderers.
According to Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker, who was in court Monday, it quickly became clear that Miles “wished there had never been a hearing.”
“It seemed like she was trying to get away,” Baker said. “She started doing things that were beyond her capabilities, beyond her pay grade, outside the law.”
The hearing was meant to center on Senator Leahy, but neither he nor his lawyer, Daniel Horowitz, were able to speak more than a few words. Instead, Senator Miles seemed intent on pressuring others to air their grievances and concerns, effectively disrupting his own deliberations by proxy.
“The judge allowed everyone to speak except for one man who was called to the hearing,” Baker said. “Michael Leahy’s attorney interrupted him mid-sentence every time he stood up, which was twice, and she told the attorney that she would not be hearing any arguments in the case today.”
“She actually said, ‘Your argument is not ripe yet,'” Baker continued.
The Star reported that Miles had reconsidered the purpose of the hearing to get a “context” of the situation.
Baker plans to detail some of the more absurd and shocking aspects of the hearing in a forthcoming article in The Blaze News, but makes it clear that it was nonetheless a sham hearing.
“What on earth did you see?” Baker
Said Monday on “The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.” “As soon as court adjourned, I said, ‘Um, you know what?’
“She tried to understand everybody’s position. She repeated over and over that she was not an investigator. ‘I’m just a judge. I’m not a prosecutor. I’m just a judge and I’m just here to get you to understand,’ and finally she wrapped up and said, ‘Ok, I understand now.’ When court adjourned, I said, ‘Does she know how stupid she is?'” Baker said.
Baker told Blaze News that it was likely Miles realised “he’d made a mistake” just days before the programme’s hearing and did not want the matter to go to the Court of Appeal.
“She started to make a move and then she realized, ‘This is where I screwed up. I shouldn’t have done this,'” Baker continued. “She was cleaning up after herself.”
“She didn’t allow me to explain why, she didn’t allow my lawyers to explain why I shouldn’t be held in contempt. She changed the purpose of the meeting,” Leahy said on Monday’s show, reflecting on the outcome of the show-cause hearing.
None of the lawyers who spoke at Monday’s hearing reportedly argued that Leahy broke the law, but reporters at the press suggested a special prosecutor might be appointed to go after Leahy for releasing the shooter’s diary.
“So, let me conclude this matter. I see two outcomes, or possibilities. [Myles] “She was going to review and then issue an order to either appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute us,” Leahy said. “So she did. She said, ‘I’m going to review all of this and I’m going to issue an order,’ but she didn’t say when. If the order was to appoint a special prosecutor, I would still be in legal jeopardy. That’s my view.”
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