How the Capitol Riot Suspects Are Challenging the Charges

[Rustyeye77]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/politics/capitol-riot-investigation-defenses.html

Three months after the attack on the Capitol, the frantic federal effort to prosecute the members of the mob that stormed the building has started shifting gears.

After a nationwide flurry of arrests, defense lawyers are homing in on what they describe as fundamental weaknesses in the government’s case.

Some have challenged the marquee indictments against members of the Oath Keepers militia and the far-right group the Proud Boys, saying that the evidence so far does not support claims that their clients conspired to plan an attack against Congress.

Others have complained about prosecutors’ use of an unlawful entry statute and a 1960s-era law intended to silence leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And at least one lawyer has filed a motion to move her client’s case out of Washington, saying it will be impossible to get a fair trial in the city where the insurrection occurred.

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i hope these mkers dont get off.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

1. They had t-shirts printed up for the day...

...and they claim it wasn't planned?

[Rustyeye77]

3. According to article...

the government hasnt showed its FULL hand.

[Solomon]

2. They can't escape trespass and unlawful entry charges.

[MichMan]

4. What is the typical penalty for that?

10 yrs behind bars?

[Rustyeye77]

5. This guy should be #1.... Sleaze bag

[llashram]

6. 1/6/2021

was a coup attempt. Traitors all. Pure and simple. But like I read elsewhere here if the insurgent insurrectionists had been POC, pieces of them would still be being policed from the Capitol grounds. The hypocrisy of this whole thing is suffocatingly obvious.

[marble falls]

7. This the sort of thing every defense lawyer says whether she/he believes it or not.

[flotsam]

8. "Others have complained about prosecutors' use of an unlawful entry statute and a 1960s-era law

... intended to silence leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."

So to use it against white people would be unfair?

[bullwinkle428]

9. NPR reported this morning that NOT ONE has plead guilty.

[Volaris]

10. Of course not. They're white.

That's THEIR Capitol building, THEIR tax dollars pay for it. Therefore, if they want it burned to the ground, they have every right to do so.

Their mistake is in the conclusion that THEIR capitol is Washington, DC, and not Richmond VA.

[Rustyeye77]

11. You have to believe some have flipped.

In exchange for a slap on the wrist.