Couple was found guilty

Denver, USA (Colorado) – After several hours of consultations and a one -week legal proceedings, a federal jury was guilty of two suspects The planning and staging of a hate crime, in order to threaten the mayor of Colorado Springs, Yemi Mobolade, during his offer for the mayor of 2023, which they intended to influence the voices in his favor.

Both were found guilty of the conspiracy of cheating the government and making it guilty of using the intergovernmental trade in order to convey false information about the attempt to kill, injure or threaten to kill, violate or threaten.

The process in the Federal Supreme Court in Denver examined the complex saga of a hate criminal, in which a cross for Yemi Mobolade's candidate at the time was set fire to a campaign sign sent with a slurt.

The FBI was finally found that the crime was a joke that should influence the races between Mobolade and Wayne Williams 2023. Afterwards, three people, Derrick Bernard, Ashley “Trinity” Blackcloud and Deanna West, were charged in an indictment towards the end of 2024 because of their participation in the joke.

The indictment contained evidence that Mobolade communicated with Bernard in the office now on Facebook messages and text messages, which raises questions about the knowledge of the mayor about the staged crime. Mayor Mobolade has consistently denied any knowledge or participation in the crime.

Ultimately, Deanna West owed himself guilty in December 2024 to be part of the conspiracy.

What was discussed during the entire legal proceedings last week was whether Bernard and Blackcloud burned the cross in front of the Yemi Mobolade campaign sign with the “N -word” lur as a sensible threat.

The defense found that burning a cross is protected as part of the first change. However, the threshold is fulfilled if this threat promotes violence.

The other part of the question for the two fees was whether the two intentionally planned the law and then spread incorrect information using the Internet and the media in order to sell this joke as a real threat.

On Friday, the public prosecutor claimed on Friday that it was irrelevant when the couple claims that the stunt was a joke and was not intended to make a threat, but it is important, as the victim, Mobolade, perceived the law.

The mayor gave extremely emotional statements about the effects of the incident on him and his family, including his wife's testimony, which shared similar feelings about the endangered feeling of their security.

Mobolade emphasized that this act was not a political theater or a joke for him, but a real, anxious threat.

The US legal office argued that the couple used the WLAN, social media and the e -mail to spread the false narrative of joke to a legitimate threat to convince the public to buy in Mobolades campaign in order to become the first selected black mayor of Colorado Springs.

On the contrary, the defender of Ashley Blackcloud concentrated on whether Mobolade actually felt threatened with the crime or not.

They quoted the fact that it took him over a day to call the police, and that his election campaign personnel assured him that it was 99% a joke should point out that he did not take the joke as seriously as it is assumed.

Blackcloud's lawyer, who mainly argued for both accused, claimed that there were even more evidence that the situation clouded by finding that the FBI has not yet completed whether Mobolade had lodged her through texts and telephone calls with Bernard.

The lawyer interrupted the jury, if you have reasonable doubts that Mobolade is really threatened, you would not have to guilty the couple.

The last day of the process was wrapped in controversy after Bernard surprisingly testified on Thursday after the defense had rejected its seven remaining witnesses.

There, Bernard now accused Mayor of Mobolade and the representative of the state of Colorado, Regina English, not only that the video was also a joke, but also part of the first planning process.

Krdo13 turned to the city of Colorado Springs to receive a comment on the allegations, but a spokesman returned to the mayor's certificate this week.

We also contacted representative English about these accusations on Thursday evening and on Friday morning. The English camp informed us that they are working on an explanation.