The alleged victim, Maricopa County’s recorder, says he expressed to prosecutors his “earnest interest in being done with the case”
A federal judge on Monday granted a prosecution request to dismiss an indictment against a San Diego man charged with threatening an Arizona election official after the alleged victim expressed to the government “an earnest interest in being done with the case.”
“The words used by Mr. Hyde were not threats,” Vikas Bajaj, one of his attorneys, said Friday. “While Mr. Hyde and I are grateful for the Department of Justice’s ultimate realization that this conduct doesn’t rise to the level of a crime, we’re similarly disappointed that Mr. Hyde has suffered through irreparable harm to his character to get to this point of finality.”
U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath said in a statement that despite the dismissal of Hyde’s case, “Our commitment remains steady: We will use the law to protect civil discourse, strengthen democratic engagement, and safeguard election officials from threats and harassment.” “I’ve had to meet with federal agents and attorneys multiple times, I’ve had to produce documents pursuant to a court subpoena from my personal email and cell phone, my office has had to produce many documents pursuant to a subpoena, I’ve had to do trial preparation, and I’ve had to rearrange my schedule multiple times to account for the timeline changes requested by Mr. Hyde,” Richer wrote.
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