Day three of YouTuber and self-proclaimed future governor of an unnamed state Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s court case against the Las Vegas Metro Police Department was marred by an ugly incident where DeCastro nearly caused a mistrial as he attempted to introduce prohibited evidence to the jury.
A distraught DeCastro posted a video to his Instagram feed to protest a decision by Judge Andrew P. Gordon last week to prohibit testimony about DeCastro’s conviction, his serving time or his acquittal of the charges that stemmed from the incident at the heart of this lawsuit.
DeCastro had previously known that the testimony would be limited on the subject as last week when Judge Gordon ruled on the defense’s motion in limine granting and denying the following subjects:
- DeCastro is prohibited from introducing any evidence regarding the criminal proceedings resulting from his arrest and charges following the subject incident; 1 – GRANTED IN PART.
- DeCastro is prohibited from introducing any damages asserted by DeCastro not previously identified in his computation of damages; 2 – GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.
- DeCastro’s damages are cut off after the prosecutor’s independent decision to charge him; DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE to renewal at trial.
- DeCastro is prohibited from introducing any medical damages; No. 4 – DENIED AS MOOT.
- DeCastro is prohibited from introducing evidence of any other incidents of alleged police misconduct. No. 5 – DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
In his video, apparently shot during the lunch break of Wednesday’s proceedings, DeCastro said that he had attempted to testify that arresting officer Branden Borque was lying and that “a court of law” had “found out” that he “had lied.”
The trouble with DeCastro’s statement was that a court had never in fact concluded that. While appeals court Judge Michelle Leavitt said that she saw DeCastro take a step backwards during the appeal of his trial, she never officially made a ruling that Borque had indeed perjured himself.
Perjury as a ruling has been a statement that DeCastro and long-time friend and supporter Brian “Here’s the Deal” Young have claimed since the DeCastro’s acquittal but has no basis in actual court rulings or findings.
DeCastro said that the Court called a recess due to his statement and that he “would be appealing” without specifying if he’d be appealing the lawsuit or the decision.
According to the minute notes of the proceedings, defense attorney Craig Anderson moved for a mistrial outside of the presence of the jury. After a lengthy debate, Judge Gordon decided to move forward with the trial and DeCastro was allowed to continue his testimony.
DeCastro would later hold a brief livestream on his YouTube channel where he would describe his testimony in court as “gold.” He said he felt like he was in a scripted movie or TV show as he “jousted” with the defense attorney and at one point, offered to submit to a voir dire hearing in order to prove his great knowledge of the law as a “Constitutional Law Scholar.”
Addressing the outburst that caused the call for a mistrial, he prefaced it as he said he confronted Judge Andrew Gordon about how a ruling could be partially granted and partially denied.
According to DeCastro, Judge Gordon explained that DeCastro’s state level trial, conviction and overturning of the conviction upon appeal proved that the police did not have probable cause to arrest DeCastro. The Judge said that they’re simply not telling the jury anything about that case and letting them determine probable cause themselves through watching the videos and hearing the testimony.
This differs slightly from Gordon’s actual rulings, which has stated that there are significant differences between probable cause determination on the state level and on the federal level. Gordon had previously sided with the defense’s contention that mentioning DeCastro’s criminal case would bias the jury.
The YouTuber and full-time civil rights activist’s outburst apparently came as he was “jousting” with attorney Anderson. He minimized the impact of stating that officer Borque a judge had determined that Borque had lied on the stand. DeCastro did not mention the call for mistrial or incident directly, again, retreating into his belief that his testimony was “fire” and “golden.”
DeCastro did admit that almost all cases were lost on the district court level and that the police officers were not helping his case by sticking to the so-called “blue wall of silence.” He complained that none of the officers said they saw excessive force on the scene or in the video evidence presented to him.
He again fell into his “fire” performance for the day, admitting that he was elated when the defense brought in a 30 second snippet where he explained who he was and how operates. The YouTuber said he said “thank you” to the defense for playing the clip as it clearly explained his position.
At one-point DeCastro admitted that he had to invoke his fifth amendment protections against self-incrimination when asked about an unspecified crime while on the stand. He offered no further details but did tell his fans that they would be pleased with his performance when the transcripts of the trial were released.
The diminutive YouTuber is expected to continue his testimony later today.
DeCastro won Thursday’s crowdsourcing title with $270.00 in new donations to his Stand with Chille, Delete Lawz, Federal Trial Feb 9, 2026 fund.
Frauditor Troll’s Help us Fight this anti-free speech retaliation lawsuit campaign placed second for the day with $54.00 in exchange rate corrections as no new donations had been recorded.
No other campaigns that we follow had donations for Thursday.
