Defendant gets theatrical during drug-case retrial

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The former D.C. nightclub owner at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court decision about GPS tracking by law enforcement ripped up a copy of his indictment during his drug-conspiracy retrial Monday in D.C. federal court.

Antoine Jones is representing himself in D.C. federal court and said in his opening statement that “an indictment is nothing but a formal charge” before ripping the court document.

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