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Attorneys for the former Olympic canoeist the Trump administration had charged in a felony Reflecting Pool case are seeking to permanently bar any effort to resurface w<\/strong>hat they called a \u201cpolitically motivated prosecution\u201d of their client.<\/p>\n

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The case against David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn was \u201cmotivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support,\u201d his attorneys said in a filing Tuesday, adding that the Justice Department \u201chas repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to seek or reinstate criminal charges to satisfy the President, irrespective of the law or facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The \u201csprint to charge\u201d Hearn, they wrote, \u201cmirrored the expedited timeline to complete the Pool renovations\u201d that led to the damage in the first place.<\/p>\n

Hearn had been on a bike ride in June and stopped by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where he was arrested after he allegedly touched material that the Trump administration had recently installed on the pool bottom. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro told reporters last month that her office could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hearn had caused at least $1,000 in damage to the Reflecting Pool, and her office convinced grand jurors to indict Hearn on a felony charge.<\/p>\n

But on Friday, Pirro\u2019s team moved to dismiss the case against Hearn, admitting that internal Interior Department documents demonstrated that there had been extensive damage that was the result of a rushed and \u201cbotched\u201d installation process. Pirro\u2019s team also moved to dismiss misdemeanor cases brought against three others in connection with incidents at the Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump wasn\u2019t pleased. He told reporters on Monday that Pirro \u201cchoked\u201d and \u201cfolded like an umbrella\u201d and claimed that she\u2019s been facing a hostile judge, even though no judge had taken any substantive action in the case. Hours later, Pirro visited the White House, bringing with her an evidence box. <\/p>\n

A key witness who testified before the grand jury hadn\u2019t initially been able to show that Hearn caused at least $1,000 in damage. But the witness was later recalled and then claimed that the additional damage that Pirro\u2019s office ascribed to Hearn would cost more than $1,000 to fix, which would have supported a felony charge.<\/p>\n

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Pirro\u2019s office moved to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning they could theoretically bring the case again. Hearn\u2019s team wanted the case dismissed with prejudice, which would mean Pirro\u2019s team would be banned from bringing a case against Hearn in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBy moving to dismiss, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office did the right thing,\u201d said attorney Steve Levin, one of the lawyers representing Hearn. \u201cBut as our response makes clear, it did so the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn\u2019s filing revealed that a National Park Service engineer even told federal investigators that \u201che had personally cut loose liner or coating with a knife\u201d to prevent the peeling from worsening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government\u2019s own engineer determined that it was better to cut off the peeling sections than to let them flap around,\u201d Hearn\u2019s attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n

In its filing, Hearn\u2019s team said the \u201cexceptional facts and circumstances\u201d warranted a dismissal with prejudice. <\/p>\n

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\u201cDefying both decency and common sense, the government proceeded to indict Mr. Hearn before it had obtained or evaluated the information necessary to establish a good-faith basis for the charge,\u201d they wrote. <\/p>\n

Hearn\u2019s team also said Pirro \u201cheld an unprofessional and unethical press conference in which she wholly disregarded DC Bar and DOJ ethics rules by discussing the purported evidence, bolstering the credibility of potential witnesses, and wrongly opining\u201d on Hearn\u2019s guilt.<\/p>\n

The case is still active in D.C. Superior Court, and a judge has not ruled on whether to permanently bar Pirro\u2019s office from bringing a new case against Hearn. A hearing that had been set for Thursday has been cancelled. <\/p>\n

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