Albert Watkins, a defense attorney for the “QAnon Shaman,” is calling for the Justice Department (DOJ) to publicly state that it failed to provide all the known footage of his client in the Capitol during his prosecution.
Watkins, a St. Louis-based attorney with nearly 40 years’ experience, told the Daily Caller about his reaction to the new footage released by Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, which showed his client walking inside the Capitol with police officers. He said the Justice Department withheld the footage shown by Carlson during the prosecution.
“It is really important for people to understand and appreciate the government had a lawful and uncompromisable duty to disclose all exculpable evidence,” Watkins said. “I have a duty to put my client in a position of knowledge of all the evidence, good and bad, and the depriving of a defendant of any evidence, good and bad, especially exculpatory evidence, [is] unforgivable, in the context of justice, vile.”
The QAnan Shaman, whose real name is Jacob Chansley, is a Navy veteran whom Watkins says the government diagnosed with a serious mental health condition. Chansley was unaware of his mental health condition and developed severe mental health issues during his time in solitary confinement.
