An attorney for Daniel Caldwell, of Texas, says he and his client have a “philosophical disagreement” over the direction of the case.
A lawyer for a Texas man who bragged on video about pepper spraying more than a dozen officers on January 6 is asking to withdraw from the case, telling a judge there’s been a “break down in the attorney-client relationship.”
John Hunter Smith, an attorney for Wynne & Smith in Sherman, Texas, filed a motion Thursday asking U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to allow him to withdraw from representing Daniel Caldwell in an ongoing January 6 criminal case against him.
Caldwell was arrested in February and indicted in March on seven counts, including assaulting police with a dangerous weapon and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds. According to charging documents, public video from the U.S. Capitol building on January 6 shows Caldwell using a can of chemical irritant to assault police who were attempting to hold protesters back on the Capitol steps.
#CapitolRiot: The DOJ says it also has a video from January 6 of Daniel Caldwell talking about having pepper sprayed as many as 15 officers. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/f5QZ4ksFUs
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) August 13, 2021
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