He was charged for assaulting an fbi officer, and so that was a reason that the judge found that he should be denied bail today. so there s kind of two things happening. you re nodding along there, clint. first of all, explain to the audience what exactly were the circumstances as to why this was an assault on an officer, who i think was serving a subpoena in connection with another matter. tell me what that was about. right. and good evening, laura. thank you for having me. i really appreciate it. jessica s absolutely right, though. i will tell you the most significant reason why mr. harrison is still in custody is he has himself as his lawyer. there could have been pretrial discussions with respect to that previous case, which we know is the outstanding warrant from maryland based on the assault of the federal agent who was attempting to serve a subpoena.
And you could have also negotiated a pretrial release by way of an agreed-upon bond in this case so that he could have had much the same process in effect as the other defendants that we saw. what we know about the previous case is that mr. harrison is claiming that he did not know the identity of the individuals who were approaching him to execute the service of the subpoena. but, of course, that will be a question for a different day, for a different court. but certainly the judge in this case found that the two cases combined, in her opinion, showed a propensity for mr. harrison to commit crimes, and so she was able to deny bond based on the criteria here in georgia. and real quick, clint, when you think about that, she seemed to be referencing another judge. she did not want to be the ultimate decision maker on this case. tell me why. right. well, here in the fulton county judicial circuit, there are, as
Washington and clint rucke so happy to see both of you here tonight. jessica, you ve got a piece out in the root talking about this very issue, how floyd is one of only two black defendants in this case. he s still in jail, and i might note this has been talked about as a more notorious jail, fulton county. what is happening here? any insight as to why it is he s still there and that judge made that decision? yeah. so there s kind of two things happening. the first thing is that he did not have counsel going into it from everything we understand, particularly fm e hearing today. and so unlike the other defendants whoegiated a bond agreement beforeoing in, he didn t do that. so he was immediately detained once he came to the jail. and the other defendants got to come in and then leave and post their bond. so that happened initially. but then at this hearing today, we also saw his secondary charge or the charge that actually came before this in may. that was brought up as well.