This botch of a case is typical of thousands of criminal prosecutions across the U.S. whereat the plea bargain mill subsidizes sloppy police work, careless prosecutions with ethics breaches and indifferent judges who work for days not in the law, but according to customs and usages.
Mr. James’ nolle prosequi, like everything else in State of Georgia v. Michael James, “materially misstates the following facts,” says Christopher Sapp, Eagle Radio Network midstate bureau chief based in Cookeville, Tenn.
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1. Mike was “Pro Se” and without counsel through abandonment and consent of the court as of September 25th 2025, the original date set for trial.
2. Mike never entered a plea of Not Guilty nor requested a jury trial (though attorney VanMatre might have...we still haven’t seen the file)
3. The “material civilian witnesses” were arguably never “witnesses” to begin with, did not have standing to file a complaint on behalf of the artificial entity, had engaged in retaliatory conduct, may not have been subpoenaed for return at trial, and could have been arrested for contempt and failure to appear if they had been.
Interestingly, the same Assistant-Solicitor who preferred the downgraded charges is the same one filing the motion in an attempt to cover his own ass for committing fraud upon the court in the first instance. There was never a proper show-cause hearing and I was never permitted to testify as to the missing video footage, body cam manipulation, brady violations, evidence manipulation, or the conspiracy to manufacture a criminal charge where there was not one.
