Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant indicted for lying about President Joe Biden’s family and their alleged dealings in Ukraine, has been re-arrested in Nevada.
Though prosecutors fought to keep him behind bars, Smirnov was released by Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts in Nevada on Tuesday with several conditions, including GPS monitoring and the surrender of his two passports.
Prosecutors asked the Nevada judge to delay his release, but the judge declined and Smirnov was allowed to walk out.
Now, Smirnov’s defense lawyers say their client was re-arrested Thursday on a new warrant for the exact same charges – this time signed by federal district Judge Otis Wright, who will oversee the criminal case out of California.
It’s a weird kind of thing because if he had bailed out on his charges then he would be waiting for court proceedings and couldn’t be touched but he didn’t bail out he was released, so the trial had concluded and he had been serving his sentence and was then released conditionally by this magistrate judge only to be picked up again? Technically the warrant itself does fly but I don’t see how the charges stick when he has already been tried for them. I assume there isnt any new evidence or new counts but perhaps I’m wrong. Sometimes people can be reprosecuted if it’s determined that the original trial was somehow faulty but usually not so quickly as they have to gather a case for retrial together. So basically this is really weird.
No trial has occurred yet and no sentence levied, he was released on his own recognizance while awaiting trial.
There hasn’t been a trial or sentence yet, this is misinformation.