Legal professionals for accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira argue he be free of jail citing Trump’s categorised docs case

Accused Pentagon doc leaker Jack Teixeira is demanding to be let loose of jail on the idea that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta are free as they await trial on fees of mishandling categorised White Home paperwork. 

The 21-year-old Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guardsman has been behind bars since his April 13 arrest over allegations that he leaked secret navy paperwork associated to Russia’s warfare in Ukraine and different delicate nationwide safety matters on the social media platform Discord. 

Justice of the Peace Decide David Hennessy granted prosecutors’ movement to maintain Teixera in federal custody again in Might after the Justice Division argued that the cyber transport methods journeyman may additional impede justice or flee the nation if launched. 

In court papers filed on Monday, Teixeira’s attorneys say that the 21-year-old has no monetary skill or incentive to flee, and argue that the DOJ “drastically overexaggerates Mr. Teixeira’s threat to nationwide safety.” 

Additionally they observe that Particular Counsel Jack Smith didn’t search to detain the 77-year-old former president or his aide regardless of the pair’s “extraordinary means to flee america.”

“Former President Trump and The Trump Group personal properties in a number of international international locations, and former President Trump has entry to a non-public airplane. But, the danger of flight posed by their information of nationwide safety data, and their irregular skill to flee, didn’t even lead to a request that both give up their passport,” Teixeira’s attorneys argue.

“The federal government’s disparate strategy to pretrial launch in these instances demonstrates that its argument for Mr. Teixeira’s pretrial detention primarily based on information he allegedly retains is illusory,” they add. 

Final month, Teixeira was indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts of willful retention and transmission of nationwide protection secrets and techniques. 

He pleaded not guilty to each count, which is punishable by as much as 10 years in jail.

Trump has pleaded not responsible to 31 counts of willful retention of the categorised paperwork in addition to six other charges, together with conspiracy to impede justice and making false statements. 

Nauta, a former White Home navy aide who was working for Trump as a physique man at his Mar-a-Lago resort, has pleaded not guilty to six charges together with conspiracy, concealing and withholding paperwork, in addition to making false statements.