Another One Of Jeanine Pirro's Big 'Assault' Cases Is Getting Dismissed

Prosecutors are dropping yet another case in which they claimed a Washington, D.C., resident had assaulted a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown, the latest in a string of embarrassing walkbacks by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for D.C.

Mark Bigelow was arrested in August for allegedly having an open container of alcohol in the back of a van. Police claimed he resisted arrest and struck a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent while being taken into custody.

With Pirro’s office eager to hype Trump’s federal takeover of policing in the city, prosecutors initially charged Bigelow with felony assault of a federal agent, which can carry a prison term of up to eight years. It was one of many cases in which prosecutors appeared to be overcharging D.C. residents with serious crimes just to send a message about Trump’s takeover.

Pirro’s office later reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, likely after it became clear prosecutors would not prevail in a felony case. But now prosecutors are seeking to drop the misdemeanor charge as well.

In a filing Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Seidel asked the judge to dismiss the case “with prejudice,” meaning the case would be thrown out and no new charges would be brought against Bigelow. Dismissal, Seidel wrote, would “serve the interests of justice.”

Elizabeth Mullin, an attorney for Bigelow, told HuffPost in an email that her client was satisfied with the outcome.

“This was the only just result in this case, and we are pleased that the U.S. Attorney’s Office reached the same conclusion,” Mullin said.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Pirro’s office has earned rebukes from judges at the federal court in D.C. for pursuing felony cases that went nowhere, then switching gears and pursuing misdemeanor charges. In several cases, grand juries have declined to return indictments—an awkward defeat for prosecutors, since they largely control the grand jury process.

Defense attorneys have blasted several cases as a colossal waste of time and court resources, as well as a gross injustice: Many defendants ended up spending days in the city jail only to have their cases tossed.

Pirro, in turn, has lashed out at a D.C. judge and even at the jurors themselves.

The decision to drop the Bigelow case comes after Pirro’s office suffered an embarrassing loss in a similar case that went to a jury trial.

Prosecutors had accused D.C. resident Sidney Reid of striking an FBI agent during an altercation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Reid, like many locals who oppose Trump’s deportation campaign, had been filming the officers while they detained a man who’d just been released from the D.C. jail.

Pirro’s office tried and failed three times to get a D.C. grand jury to return a felony indictment against Reid for assaulting a federal agent. They ended up pursuing a misdemeanor case against her, but couldn’t even win on the lesser charge.

Reid was acquitted Thursday after a three-day jury trial. She said in a statement through her attorneys that her case showed “this administration and their peons are not able to invoke fear in all citizens.”

“I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump’s irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man,” Reid went on. “Knowing that I can stand in front of 12 of my fellow citizens and be found not guilty for standing up for basic human rights makes me feel like, despite the scary times we live in, we have hope for the future.”