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Jan. 6 defendants whine they can’t get a fair trial in city they attacked [1]
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Date: 2022-07-07
Gosh, why would D.C. feel like it had been attacked?
It seems that facing consequences for their actions isn’t something that many Jan. 6 insurrectionists are familiar with. “D.C. is a city that, as a whole, feels that it has been the victim of a crime,” the defense attorneys in two of the Oath Keepers’ trials argued in court. As if their clients were not actually traitorous criminals who were caught in the act on live, national television.
So far, prosecutors and judges are not swayed. “In any U.S. jurisdiction, most prospective jurors will have heard about the events of January 6, and many will have various disqualifying biases,” U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in denying one request. Finding an impartial jury in Washington, D.C., is not impossible. It’s been done. The real problem for the defendants is that they’re being convicted, even as potential jurors are disqualified.
As this report from AP details, so far 838 people have been charged in the insurrection, and 335 convicted on charges ranging from “low-level misdemeanors to felony seditious conspiracy.” One has been acquitted, while 498 cases are still pending. “Already more than 300 people across the U.S. have pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from the deadly riot,” AP reports. “Collectively, 72 jurors have unanimously convicted six Jan. 6 defendants of all 35 counts in their indictments.”
That’s a pretty good win record for the prosecutors, but since the attack was, again, carried out on live national television and many of the defendants put their own damned crimes out on their own damned social media in real time and in the days after, what in the hell did they expect?
They expected to get away with it, clearly, which shows just how deeply broken everything is in this country right now.
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