Oct 3, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 21 segments
On this edition of Let’s Get Legal, Employment Lawyer Patrick Dolan and Criminal Defense Attorney Michael Leonard join Jon Hansen to discuss an update on the Broadview Six and what it means to be held…
Jon HansenHostPatrick DolanGuestIf you recall, the government charged six individuals, including some local politician types, with impeding ICE officers at Broadview.
And what made the prosecution controversial is it turned out that there was a lot of irregularities before the grand jury.
For example, a prosecutor saying things to the grand jurors that were considered improper.
grand jurors who indicated they weren't going to vote to indict being removed or allowed to leave.
So it was just a big fiasco and ultimately resulted in the dismissal of all the charges.
The prosecutors had given redacted materials from the grand jury sessions to the judge, redacting out what could be considered misconduct.
So now with the case being dismissed, of course, the defense still wants the u.s attorney's office to be taken to task or at least investigated and so there was a hearing this week before judge april perry in federal court with a packed house and the issue was you know would the court take additional steps to investigate the actions of the u.s attorney's office
are they trying to determine if there's because this also threw other cases into turmoil And I know that a lot of defense attorneys were saying, well, hey, look, let's look at what happened in my grand jury case with my client.
So we found a lot of motions asking for the grand jury materials to be unsealed.
And what happens in those instances is the judge presiding over your case gets those transcripts, looks at them, decides that there's any misconduct.
Unfortunately or unfortunately, the court didn't find there was any misconduct in those cases, which could have resulted in dismissal.
However, in a couple of other cases filed by other lawyers, misconduct was found.
But this week, what happened was the focus wasn't on what happened before the grand jury.
The focus was on, okay, is the court going to investigate the actions of the U.S. Attorney's during the pendency of the case.
If you recall, the government charged six individuals, including some local politician types, with impeding ICE officers at Broadview.
And what made the prosecution controversial is it turned out that there was a lot of irregularities before the grand jury.
For example, a prosecutor saying things to the grand jurors that were considered improper.
grand jurors who indicated they weren't going to vote to indict being removed or allowed to leave.
So it was just a big fiasco and ultimately resulted in the dismissal of all the charges.
The prosecutors had given redacted materials from the grand jury sessions to the judge, redacting out what could be considered misconduct.
So now with the case being dismissed, of course, the defense still wants the u.s attorney's office to be taken to task or at least investigated and so there was a hearing this week before judge april perry in federal court with a packed house and the issue was you know would the court take additional steps to investigate the actions of the u.s attorney's office
are they trying to determine if there's because this also threw other cases into turmoil And I know that a lot of defense attorneys were saying, well, hey, look, let's look at what happened in my grand jury case with my client.
So we found a lot of motions asking for the grand jury materials to be unsealed.
And what happens in those instances is the judge presiding over your case gets those transcripts, looks at them, decides that there's any misconduct.
Unfortunately or unfortunately, the court didn't find there was any misconduct in those cases, which could have resulted in dismissal.
However, in a couple of other cases filed by other lawyers, misconduct was found.
But this week, what happened was the focus wasn't on what happened before the grand jury.
The focus was on, okay, is the court going to investigate the actions of the U.S. Attorney's during the pendency of the case.
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