A Jan. 6 defendant’s boast in an interview this week that he had no regrets about his role in the Capitol riot — just days after acknowledging his guilt in court — may upend his efforts to resolve the criminal case against him.
A Jan. 6 defendant’s boast in an interview this week that he had no regrets about his role in the Capitol riot — just days after he acknowledged his guilt in a federal courtroom — may upend the man’s efforts to resolve the criminal case against him.
In a brief order Friday morning, Mehta gave both sides one week to explain “why the court should not vacate Defendant’s convictions of guilt in light of his post-stipulated trial statements” included in the article. The judge also attached a copy of the news report.came to the attention of Mehta, who sits at the federal courthouse near the Capitol.
Entering the Senate chamber has been a sort of red line for prosecutors, with them insisting on felony guilty pleas or convictions to resolve cases against those who went inside, even briefly.acquitted a defendant of an obstruction chargeAdams was on the Senate floor for about seven minutes before he was kicked out of the building, according to theStipulated trials have been used in recent months to seek to resolve about a dozen Jan.
Unlike the guilty pleas typically offered in deals with prosecutors, stipulated trials allow defendants in other cases to preserve their ability to wipe out their obstruction convictions if the D.C. Circuit sides with Nichols. The obstruction charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence, although no Jan. 6 defendant has received a sentence close to that in a case not involving violence.
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