Pontiac — An Oakland County Circuit Court judge issued a bench warrant Thursday for Stefanie Lambert, a lawyer who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election, after she failed to appear for a hearing.
Lambert is already facing felony charges for her alleged involvement in a conspiracy to improperly obtain voting equipment in Michigan. Ahead of her trial next month, a hearing was scheduled before Judge Jeffery Matis at 3 p.m. Thursday over why Lambert hadn’t complied with past orders that she be fingerprinted and have a DNA sample taken.
But Lambert didn’t show up Thursday. At about 4 p.m. Matis agreed with a prosecutor’s request to issue a bench warrant for Lambert and to give her 24 hours to turn herself in.
Matis said he had authorized at least four orders previously requiring Lambert to be fingerprinted and to have a DNA swab taken.
“It is apparent that there just was not going to be compliance with the court orders at this point, at least up until now,” Matis said.
Timothy Maat, a prosecutor from Muskegon County, told Matis that the bench warrant had become “unfortunately necessary.”
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