Overview
- A federal judge on Friday dismissed with prejudice the charges against Heather Denae Lewis, permanently closing her case.
- Prosecutors moved to drop the case after a mistaken identification, and her attorney says investigators matched cell-location data and protest video to her driver’s license.
- Lewis maintains she never entered Cities Church and says she was at a nearby Cub Foods parking lot picking up auction items on Jan. 18.
- In a separate order, Magistrate Judge Douglas L. Micko said the government had produced “zero evidence” to defendants and called its discovery pace unacceptable.
- The broader prosecution continues against activists and two journalists, including Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, under the FACE Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.