There have been numerous striking developments today in court cases involving the Trump regime, but this one, a motion by the DoJ to dismiss a criminal complaint brought against two Minnesota men is utterly remarkable. I’ll explain… 1/ #LawFedi
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This case was a total clusterfuck which started when the agents stopped Aljorna when they were actually looking for someone named Barrera.
Aljorna and Sosa-Celis were actually detained twice on the false testimony of the #ICE agents.
The original criminal complaint grew out of a situation where ICE agents shot one of the men after a car chase, then forced that man and another who aided him out of an apartment by tear-gassing it. 2/
The Trump regime claimed that the men assaulted an ICE agent woth a broom and a shovel before they fled into the apartment. Details of this alleged assault and other aspects of the car chase and the ICE shooting were submitted by DoJ to support the original complaint, in an affidavit from an FBI agent. The FBI agent also testified at a recent hearing in the case regarding the release on bond of the two men. 3/
In its motion to dismiss the complaint, filed yesterday and posted publicly to the docket today, the U.S. District Attorney for Minnesota, wrote “Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the
allegations in the Complaint Affidavit, filed on January 16, 2026, as ECF 1-1, as well as the preliminary-hearing testimony (ECF 18, 19) that was based on information presented to the Affiant.” 4/
In other words, continuing investigation into the episode revealed that the FBI agent’s testimony was wrong - either because the agent erred or lied or because whoever supplied him or her with information erred or lied. 5/
It isn’t unheard of for a prosecutor to file a motion to dismiss a criminal case, but it isn’t common. And for the Trump DoJ to do so in an ICE-related one is extremely unusual. Whatever evidence the DoJ found that contradicted the FBI agent’s testimony to the court must have been utterly damning. 6/
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A dismissal “with prejudice” means that the complaint cannot be filed again. 7/7
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