Judge dismisses Reflecting Pool vandalism case against former Olympian David Hearn

Associate Judge Todd Edelman said he would wait to determine whether to grant the dismissal with prejudice after hearing more arguments.

President attacks ‘terrible mistake’ of US attorney, who said in court filing damage stemmed from botched renovation Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Jeanine Pirro after the US attorney for the District of Columbia publicly challenged his claims that vandals had damaged the recently renovated Lincoln M

A local judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday formally dismissed the felony charge accusing Olympic canoeist David Hearn of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro backed away from the case.  D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman will decide later whether prosecutors can try

At a press conference on July 2, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said she had "tremendous evidence" proving that David Hearn had deliberately caused more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, making him guilty of a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Th

David Hearn's attorneys have moved to have his indictment for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool dismissed with prejudice.

David Hearn has several options for recourse – but none of them are easy.

President Trump continues to insist that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was vandalized, even after D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro admitted in court that it was not.  Speaking to reporters outside of Air Force One in Los Angeles Tuesday night, Trump defended the contractor who handled the pool’s renovation, desp

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed

Reflecting Pool prosecutor said government wasn't 'forthcoming'  USA Today

Kylie Cooper / REUTERS President Donald Trump’s crusade against the purported Reflecting Pool vandals has been hit with a humiliating roadblock. The office of Jeanine Pirro, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has dropped charges against three other individuals previously accused of destroyi

Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., dropped criminal charges against three remaining people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, days after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office abandoned a felony case against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn. The dismissals came the same week that Presid

US president's hand-picked DC attorney in firing line after dropping charges for vandalism of Washington landmark.

Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him. Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” designed to pay Trump allies would not be resurrected, and that a settlement between Tru

Charges Against Remaining Reflecting Pool Case Defendants Dropped Despite Trump Complaints  forbes.com

Top prosecutor claimed her office had been provided with ‘less-than-fulsome information’

Atty for Ex-Olympian speaks out after Reflecting Pool vandalism case dropped  CNN

President Donald Trump says US Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Trump says Pirro ‘choked’ and ‘folded like an umbrella’  AP News

The president also said Monday that he did not know the contractor who did the work on the pool.

The president ignored a question about whether he was considering firing her.

Trump says Pirro ‘folded like an umbrella’ in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges  Toronto Star

“I was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed in Jeanine Pirro,” he added. “She folded like an umbrella.”

Federal prosecutors moved to drop their case against David Hearn, blaming Reflecting Pool damage on a "botched installation" rather than vandalism. That has implications for others who were charged.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is now drained of water and awaiting repairs, as a feud within the Trump administration spills into the open. President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are both rejecting the conclusion by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro that contractors caused the pool to peel. Olivia Rinaldi

Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro "was right to pull back" the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism charge against a former Olympian.