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June 12 (Reuters) – Disciplinary officials in Washington said on Friday that a former federal prosecutor should be suspended from practicing law for six months, finding she used deceptively \u200bedited videos as evidence in criminal cases against protesters during Republican President \u200cDonald Trump’s first inauguration.<\/div>
The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility recommended the sanction against Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, saying a three-month suspension proposed by a board committee last year was too lenient.<\/div>
Muyskens’ conduct was “egregious, \u200bwillful, and sustained,” the D.C. Board said in its 105-page recommendation<\/svg>, opens new tab<\/span>. Her disciplinary \u200bcase now goes to the D.C. Court of Appeals, which has \u2060the final say on attorney disciplinary matters in the district.<\/div>
Muyskens’ attorneys at Greenberg Traurig \u200bdid not immediately respond to a request for comment. Muyskens has denied wrongdoing.<\/div>
Hamilton Fox, \u200bthe head of the D.C. bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel, declined to comment.<\/div>
Police in Washington arrested more than 200 people in connection with the January 20, 2017, protests, during which black-clad activists \u200bsmashed store windows, blocked traffic and fought with police. Muyskens served as the lead \u200bfederal prosecutor on those cases.<\/div>
Twenty people entered guilty pleas, Reuters reported in December 2017. Six others were \u200cacquitted \u2060and federal prosecutors dropped charges against at least 100 others, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel said.<\/div>
Fox’s office accused Muyskens of editing videos recorded by Project Veritas, a conservative activist group known for making undercover videos that had infiltrated one of the groups \u200bprotesting Trump’s inauguration.<\/div>
The disciplinary \u200bcomplaint against Muyskens \u2060alleged that the edited videos omitted footage of protesters telling others to remain non-violent and use de-escalation tactics with police, allowing \u200bthe government to argue at trial that the defendants had planned \u200bto riot.<\/div>
The \u2060D.C. Board on Friday said Muyskens’ “dishonesty was a deliberate, sustained effort to conceal exculpatory evidence and her own prior misconduct in failing to disclose that evidence.”<\/div>
Muyskens last year said \u2060the \u200bdisciplinary counsel’s evidence showed “there was no conspiracy to suppress \u200bevidence. There were no lies. There was no intentional misconduct.” She the disciplinary charges led her to resign \u200bas a federal prosecutor in Utah and to “quit the legal profession.”<\/div>