Lawyers for would-be Kavanaugh assassin Nicholas Roske have argued that the court should throw out his previous confessions.
Roske, 26, from California, was arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh’s at 1:50 AM on June 8, in what was judged as an attempt to assassinate the SCOTUS Justice for his expected upcoming decision to vote in favour of overturning Roe v. Wade, and the recent shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
According to a 911 recording, Roske admitted that he had brought a firearm with him to the Kavanaugh residence, telling the operator that he needed “psychiatric help,” and in one of a number of confessions, confirmed that he wanted to hurt Kavanaugh.
In an affidavit from FBI special agent Ian Montijo, Roske “indicated that the Justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws.” Montijo continued, saying that Roske had claimed that killing Kavanaugh would give his life a “purpose,” deciding he would kill him after finding his address online.
However, on Friday, James Wyda, a federal public defender for the District of Maryland, argued in court that “any and all statements, admissions, and confessions (‘statements’) allegedly given by Mr. Roske, whether oral, written, or otherwise recorded, which the government proposes to use as evidence at trial,” should be suppressed.
Roske’s legal team claimed that he is “entitled to a hearing regarding the voluntariness of any alleged statements,” and that “if, at such hearing, the government fails to establish that such statements were not obtained in violation of” his rights, then those statements should be not be permitted to be used as evidence.
Twitter this week suspended the account of Ruth Sent Us, a radical pro-abortion group that had used a Google Map to host the addresses of all of the Supreme Court Justices who were planning to vote in favour of overturning Roe v. Wade. It is unclear if Roske found the address of Kavanaugh via this group.
Earlier this month, a Texas man was arrested after tweeting his intent to murder every SCOTUS Justice with an AK-47 rifle. Mikeal Archambault, 20, was charged with “making a terroristic threat causing fear of imminent severe bodily injury.”
