quote, irrelevant to the contempt of congress case against him. that is set to begin next week. the doj wrote, quote, the defendant s sudden wish to testify is not a genuine effort to meet obl gigations, but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability. bannon s reversal comes after he received a letter from former trump that waives executive privilege, but new court documents show that an attorney for former president trump actually spoke to the fbi weeks ago and contradicted bannon s claim that the former president had invoked executive privilege over particular information or materials, so who is telling the truth and who is not? more on that in a moment. also, in the january 6th public hearing that is tomorrow, this is the next one, the panel is expected to focus on how the violent mob came together, the rule of extremist groups in the deadly insurrection, and any connections of those groups to trump s inner circle. a former spokesman for the oath keepers, a far right
Testimony continued in a Columbus felony murder trial. Prosecutors called the man who did the autopsy on Harvey Montrell Johnson Jr. at the state crime lab.
A Hennepin County judge ruled Friday that because of changes in the law, a Minneapolis man sent to prison for life as a teenager for his role in a double homicide is now eligible for parole.
Flowers, who was 16 at the time of the killings, and his 17-year-old accomplice, Stafon Edward Thompson, were convicted in 2009 of two counts of first-degree murder.
A Minneapolis man serving life a life prison sentence without parole for his role as a teen in a grisly double-murder of a mother and son was resentenced Friday, paving the way for his possible release. Brian Lee Flowers, now 32, and his friend Stafon Thompson were convicted as teens for murdering 35-year-old Katricia Daniels and her 10-year-old son, Robert Shepard, in their duplex in .