A settlement is in the work of the unjustified death trial brought in the name Ashli Babbitt, a woman from San Diego who was shot dead when the supporters of President Donald Trump storm the American capitol more than four years ago, one of the complainants announced on Friday.
“The regulations were concluded in principle, and we hope to have it finalized in the coming weeks,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, who continued the federal government last year on behalf of the husband of Babbitt and his succession.
“Any regulation would be a key development in terms of justice for Ashli Babbitt,” said Fitton on Friday. He refused to comment on the details of the proposal, which was reported for the first time by the Washington Post following a hearing Friday in a Federal Washington, DC. The complaint, filed in January 2024, asked for $ 30 million.
Babbitt, 35 and an Ocean Beach resident, was fatally shot down by a Capitol police officer while riding through a broken window in the speaker’s hall on January 6, 2021, the day when Trump supporters who thought that the 2020 presidential election had been “stolen” stormed the capitol.
Shortly after taking office for his second mandate in January, Trump granted a leniency to the supporters who were prosecuted for storming the government building. At least eight people from San Diego or with close links with the region have benefited from the pardons.
The United States Ministry of Justice did not respond to a request for comments on Friday as to whether a settlement agreement is underway in the Babbitt case.
In the court documents filed in February, the complainants’ lawyers filed a joint declaration noting that the two parties “agreed to work in good faith to restrict or solve the problems in this case”.
In a press release a few days later, on March 3, Judicial Watch said that “the wording was the first to suggest that settlement negotiations were underway” in the trial.
Babbitt was a veteran of the war in Iraq who spent four years in active service in the Air Force and 10 others in the reserves. She hiked cross-country to attend a rally during which Trump spoke on the morning of the insurrection, then joined her colleagues in favor of Trump while they were heading for the Capitol building.
“Ashli did not go to Washington in the context of an illegal or harmful goal. She was there to exercise what she believed to be her American freedoms and freedoms given by God,” said the complaint.
A status hearing in the Babbitt case is scheduled for Tuesday. The trial is scheduled for next summer if no regulations are concluded before this hour.
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California Daily Newspapers
