Jan. 6 Rioter Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison
The man who was recorded punching the glass windows leading to the Speaker’s Lobby during the January 6, 2020 attack on the U.S. Capitol...
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Nov 61 min read
Jan. 6, 2021 Defendants Likely To Seek Delays Awaiting Trump Pardon
Among the many supporters of Donald Trump cheering his victory, some of the most zealous celebrations may be coming from the people who...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 232 min read
Upheld Conviction For Capitol Rioter Sets Precedent For Federal Trespass Law
On Tuesday, the federal appeals court in Washington, DC upheld the conviction of the Cowboys for Trump founder, Couy Griffin, who entered...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 122 min read
Feds Will Boost Security to Prevent Capitol Attack Repeat
The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 52 min read
Judge Shaves More Than A Year Off Of Capitol Rioter's Sentence
A federal judge knocked 15 months off a Capitol rioter’s seven-year sentence on Wednesday, the first resentencing under the Supreme...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 171 min read
DOJ Drops Capitol Obstruction Cases After SCOTUS Ruling
Federal prosecutors have started dismissing obstruction charges from some Capitol riot defendants' cases under the U.S. Supreme Court's...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 281 min read
Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Charge Jan. 6 Rioters With Obstruction
On Friday, The Supreme Court made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction — a charge that also has been brought...
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Crime and Justice News
May 292 min read
Police Officers Who Defended Capitol On Jan. 6 To Help Biden Campaign
Three police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the deadly Jan. 6 riot will help President Joe Biden's campaign in...
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Crime and Justice News
May 282 min read
Appeals Court Rules D.C. Residents Can Fairly Judge Jan. 6, 2021 Cases
Washington, D.C.’s left-leaning politics has no bearing on residents’ ability to be fair jurors in trials of those who stormed the...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 162 min read
Up To 2,500 May Face Charges In Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riot
The investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is the largest criminal inquiry in Justice Department history. Even even after more...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 12 min read
Appeals Court Says Judges Wrongly Lengthened Jan. 6 Sentences
A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that Jan. 6, 2021, defendants who obstructed Congress’ work had their sentences improperly...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 191 min read
Prosecutors Seek Six-Month Prison Term For Ex-Trump Adviser Navarro
Federal prosecutors have for a sentence of six months in prison for Peter Navarro, a former White House adviser to President Trump, for...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 52 min read
Proud Boy Gets 10-Year Term After Faking Overdose to Avoid Sentence
After going on the run and allegedly faking an overdose to avoid serving time for, among other charges, assaulting police at the U.S....
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 20, 20232 min read
Ex-Proud Boy Leader Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison
A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 13, 20232 min read
Justices To Hear Capitol Riot Case, Which Could Void Trump Charge
The Supreme Court said on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the 2021 Capitol riot,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 8, 20231 min read
Former California Police Chief Gets 11-Year Term In Capitol Riot Case
Alan Hostetter, former chief of the La Habra, Calif., Police Department as sentenced to 11 years in prison for his actions during the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 24, 20232 min read
Sedition Hunters Will Study New Jan. 6 Video, More Arrests Possible
In a surprise announcement, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said his party will make more footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Ex-State Department Employee Gets 6-Year Term In Capitol Riot Assault
An ex-State Department employee appointed by former President Trump was sentenced to nearly six years in prison Friday for his “shocking...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 31, 20231 min read
Jan. 6 Defendant Violently Resists Arrest In Federal Court
A Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot defendant who allegedly sent multiple antisemitic, doxxing threats to federal agents connected to his case...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20231 min read
Seeking Harsher Penalties, DOJ Appeals Proud Boy Sentences
The Justice Department appealed the sentences imposed on five Proud Boys members, The Hill reports. The appeal, including the group's...
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