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华盛顿特区一名法官周四永久撤销了对美国奥运皮划艇运动员大卫·赫恩的刑事起诉，结束了长达数月的林肯纪念堂倒影池破坏指控风波——此前政府承认近期翻新工程存在“拙劣施工”问题。
今年8月，联邦检察官请求高等法院法官托德·埃德尔曼撤销对赫恩的刑事起诉。赫恩此前被控犯有故意毁坏政府财产重罪，罪名是对去年夏天安装在倒影池底部的密封胶造成超过1000美元的损坏。
赫恩对指控拒不认罪，称自己7月时正在华盛顿特区进行64英里的骑行，中途在倒影池停留。他表示自己只是伸手探入池中，随后被逮捕并拘留了5小时。
该倒影池翻新项目由特朗普总统牵头推进。今年4月，特朗普启动了修复倒影池“糟糕”状况的工作，这是美国建国250周年前夕华盛顿特区春季清洁工程的一部分。他为池面石材涂层选用了一种他称之为“最新最棒的纤维材料”以及泳池衬里的“工业级”变体，并告诉记者他亲自选定了密封胶的颜色：“美国国旗蓝”。
华盛顿特区美国检察官办公室在法庭文件中承认，赫恩实际上并未损坏倒影池，尽管美国检察官珍妮·皮罗在7月的新闻发布会上曾指控赫恩实施了破坏行为。检察官表示，新披露的信息显示，池衬的撕裂和破损是由承包商“拙劣的安装工作”造成的。
埃德尔曼在政府提出动议后不久便驳回了此案，但当时并未裁定该案是附带禁止再诉的撤销（即不得再次提起诉讼）还是不附带禁止再诉的撤销（即可重新提起指控）。赫恩的律师主张应当附带禁止再诉撤销指控，而皮罗的办公室则主张不附带禁止再诉撤销指控。
埃德尔曼写道，赫恩的案件与联邦法院常见的刑事案驳回情况“截然不同”，因为“政府在一个月内就意识到其起诉缺乏正当理由”。
“得出这一结论并非因为政府误将赫恩先生指认为所谓行为的实施者，而是因为根本没有发生任何犯罪行为，”埃德尔曼补充道，政府仍保留再次起诉赫恩的可能性，这将导致一起“毫无正当理由、出于政治动机的起诉”。
在皮罗的办公室提出撤诉动议后，特朗普公开谴责了他亲自挑选的华盛顿特区检察官，称她“搞砸了”，在这一决定中“犯了错误”。
“我对珍妮·皮罗感到失望，”特朗普在8月告诉记者。这位总统此前一直坚称，池面涂层剥落是 vandals 破坏所致，而非这项耗资超1000万美元的工程本身存在问题。“谁会做出这种事？”特朗普6月20日在Truth Social的帖子中写道，该帖还提及了多起逮捕事件。其他被控破坏倒影池的多名被告的指控也已撤销。
皮罗后来试图向特朗普证明倒影池的损坏是由劣质施工造成的，她带着一整箱证据前往白宫。消息人士称，箱内装有内政部收集的所有证明赫恩及其他数人无罪的证据。
《纽约时报》9月报道称，承包商大西洋工业涂料公司在政府文件中承认，工人未使用足够的底漆，且所使用的池衬含有两种不相容的化学物质。
在皮罗的办公室提出撤诉动议几天后，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道称，白宫官员曾询问司法部，是否有可能对赫恩提起新的刑事诉讼。
赫恩的律师诺姆·艾森在一份声明中表示，埃德尔曼的裁决是“法治的胜利，也是一位寻求正义的无辜美国人的胜利”。
“这起案件从一开始就不该被提起，”艾森说，他补充道，此次起诉是“司法不公”，是“令所有美国人震惊的丑闻”。
皮罗办公室的发言人未立即回应就埃德尔曼的裁决置评的请求。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jeanine-pirro-trump-reflection-pool-washington-dc/
特朗普谴责珍妮·皮罗撤销倒影池指控
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Reflecting Pool vandalism charges against Olympic canoeist David Hearn permanently dismissed
October 1, 2026 / 11:52 AM EDT / CBS News
A Washington, D.C., judge permanently dismissed the criminal indictment against U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn Thursday, ending a months-long saga around allegations of vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the government admitted to a “botched” construction job in recent renovations.
In August, federal prosecutors asked Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman to dismiss the criminal indictment against Hearn, who had been charged with felony destruction of government property. He was accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the sealant that was installed last summer at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.
Hearn pleaded not guilty to the charges, saying he had stopped by the pool in July while on a 64-mile bike ride through the nation’s capital. He said he was arrested after he reached down into the pool and was detained for five hours.
The project to renovate the pool has been championed by President Trump, who in April launched an effort to address the pool’s “terrible” condition, part of a slate of spring cleaning projects in Washington, D.C., ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday. He had the pool’s stone flooring coated with a sealant he called the “latest and greatest filament” and an “industrial-grade” variation of swimming pool liner. He told reporters he personally chose the sealant’s color: “American Flag Blue.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. admitted in court filings that Hearn had not, in fact, damaged the pool, although U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro alleged in a July press conference that he had. Prosecutors said new information had come to light revealing the rips and tears in the pool lining were caused by a contractor’s “botched installation.”
Edelman dismissed the case shortly after the government’s motion, but had not ruled on whether the case would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the case could not be brought again, or without prejudice, meaning the charges could be revived. Hearn’s lawyers said the charges should be dismissed with prejudice, while Pirro’s office argued for a dismissal without prejudice.
Hearn’s case, Edelman wrote, “presents a markedly different scenario” than the typical dismissal of criminal cases in federal court, because “within a month, the government recognized that its prosecution lacked merit.”
“It reached this conclusion not because it has misidentified Mr. Hearn as the perpetrator of the alleged act, but because no crime had occurred,” Edelman wrote, adding that the government’s interest in keeping the possibility of charging Hearn again would result in a “meritless, politically motivated prosecution.”
After Pirro’s office moved to drop the case, Mr. Trump publicly rebuked his hand-picked D.C. prosecutor, saying that she had “choked” and “made a mistake” with the decision.
“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,” Mr. Trump told reporters in August. The president has frequently insisted the peeling was caused by vandals, not by problems with the more than $10 million project. “Who would do such a thing?” the president wrote in a Truth Social post on June 20 that also mentioned several arrests. Many of the other defendants accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool also had the charges against them dropped.
Pirro later made a bid to prove to Mr. Trump that the damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by the shoddy construction job, bringing a box full of evidence to the White House that sources said contained all of the evidence collected from the Interior Department exculpating Hearn and several others from criminal vandalism.
The New York Times in September reported that the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, admitted in government documents that the workers had not used enough primer and that the pool liner that was applied contained two chemicals that were incompatible.
Days after Pirro’s office moved to dismiss the case, CBS News reported that White House officials asked the Justice Department to weigh whether it would be possible to bring a new criminal case against Hearn.
In a statement, Norm Eisen, an attorney for Hearn, said that Edelman’s ruling is “a victory for the rule of law and for an innocent American seeking justice.”
“This case never should have been brought in the first place,” Eisen said, adding that the prosecution was a “miscarriage of justice” and an “outrage that should shock every American.”
A spokesperson for Pirro’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Edelman’s decision.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jeanine-pirro-trump-reflection-pool-washington-dc/
Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool charges
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