Don Lemon is taking a major swing at his federal prosecution, demanding that his legal team be given access to secret grand jury transcripts because he believes the proceedings were manipulated. He compared the entire ordeal to actions straight out of an authoritarian regime. The journalist wants to see those transcripts to determine if the government deliberately misled jurors into charging him with federal crimes, according to new legal documents.
TMZ reported that this isn’t just a standard legal maneuver, either. Lemon’s team argues there’s a serious chance the federal government misrepresented key issues to the grand jury to secure an indictment. You can understand why he thinks this is sketchy, considering a magistrate and a separate judge had previously reviewed the evidence against him and outright declined to press charges before the grand jury finally handed down the indictment.
