In the lead up to the trial, an antifa-associated terrorist group openly plotted to interfere with the trial, threaten myself, threaten witnesses, and vowed to “stop Michael Strickland” in a Facebook event page. They continued down the false trope of calling me a “white nationalist” (whatever that means), and claiming that I went to events to threaten, harass, and stalk people.
Using that platform, one individual began making veiled threats toward potential witnesses. This was so concerning one of those witnesses made a post about it.
Now you would think an attorney with half a brain would immediately bring this to the attention of the judge. In fact, my safety was one of the things discussed during the argument on the change of venue motion.
Since that motion was denied, and we were now seeing in real-time that some of the concerns we had were coming to fruition, you’d think a competent attorney would immediately re-raise the motion for change of venue and use this as further evidence in my defense. I mean, right here we have physical evidence that people are planning on interfering with the trial and intimidating myself and three of the potential witnesses.
But this is Christopher Trotter, Oregon’s worst excuse for an attorney. He decided that none of this mattered and didn’t bother bringing any of this up with the judge or prosecutors.
As usual Chris Trotter willingly accepted others walking all over his client and didn’t use yet another opportunity to defend his client.