China pointed its finger at the United States for originating COVID-19 on Wednesday, claiming America was attempting to “shift the blame” after President Trump declared the deadly disease was leaked from a Wuhan lab.
The Communist regime argued that “substantial evidence” suggested that COVID might have come from the US earlier than the outbreak in China while insisting the lab leak theory was “extremely unlikely” in a white paper.
“The US government, instead of facing squarely its failure in response to Covid-19 and reflecting on its shortcomings, has tried to shift the blame and divert people’s attention by shamelessly politicizing SARS-CoV-2 origins tracing,” Chinese officials complained.
The report also claimed COVID-19 was circulating around the US earlier than it was officially determined.
The Chinese accusations come after the White House revamped its COVID-19 information earlier this month to push out the assertion that COVID-19 leaked out of a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of COVID-19,” according to a section on the new White House webpage.
“Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.”
The CIA in January said the pandemic was more likely started in a lab instead of nature after it previously couldn’t reach a determination.
But the agency cautioned it had “low confidence” and made clear that the lab origin and natural origin both remain plausible. --->READ MORE HERE
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The court also rejected the defendant's argument that there was a significant underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic jurors because of how the summoning process works
The Denver-based federal appeals court decided on Tuesday that the drastic restrictions on courtroom access during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic did not violate a convicted defendant's constitutional right to a public trial.
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit also rejected the argument that the trial court's method of summoning jurors resulted in an impermissible underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic people in the jury pool.
Bruce Holder's jury trial in April 2021 was the first in Colorado's federal trial court since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic a year earlier. On appeal, he disputed the constitutionality of what the court did to accommodate the public: Allow an audio-only line, not advertised on the website, and only permit two people connected to the victim to attend in person.
Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, in the panel's April 22 opinion, wrote that such protocols were reasonable under the circumstances and did not violate Holder's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial.
"(N)othing requires a court to advertise the date, time, and location of a trial. The district court provided the dial-in number to the parties to disseminate," he wrote, and "the number was available if the public called the clerk’s office."
Holder was indicted in 2018 on four counts related to a large-scale drug distribution conspiracy out of Grand Junction. Jurors later convicted him and he received a sentence of life in prison, owing to the overdose death of a victim.
Holder's original trial in March 2020, scheduled for the same day the president declared a national emergency over COVID-19, did not go forward. A month later, U.S. District Court Senior Judge Marcia S. Krieger acknowledged any trial happening during the pandemic would require spectators to be excluded. As for audio and video streaming, "we do not have a setup for it."
In the summer of 2020, the chief judge issued protocols for conducting jury trials during the pandemic. Because the entire seating area of the largest courtroom in Denver would be occupied by jurors, an audio link "will be provided" for the public to listen.
Holder's trial began the following April, with pandemic protocols still in place. The only non-participants who were allowed in the courtroom were two people connected to the victim, who began attending after jury selection was finished.
On the fifth day of the eight-day trial, the defense objected that the public was not able to view the trial "either in person or via video." Holder's attorney also was concerned about "the lack of access to the call-in number." --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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