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Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple seen protecting their home with firearms during unrest last summer, want their criminal case to be "revisited" by a grand jury after Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was found by a judge to have ulterior motives in the proceedings.
“Due to the bias of Kim Gardner’s office, we believe the grand jury process was tainted and should be reviewed and revisited,” Joel Schwartz, the attorney for the pair, told the
Associated Press on Wednesday.
The McCloskeys were charged in July with unlawful use of a weapon in addition to evidence tampering following the circulation of the viral video that showed the duo confronting protesters in front of their St. Louis mansion following the death of George Floyd. Mark McCloskey, donning a pink polo, walked around his lawn with an AR-15, while his wife, Patricia, carried a silver handgun,