Federal prosecutors rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged in one of the most serious cases to come out of the DOJ's investigation of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
in January. Rhodes and other Oath Keepers are scheduled to be sentenced in May.
Most of the defendants aren’t accused of engaging in violence themselves. Tarrio wasn’t even at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Police Prosecutors have employed an unusual theory that Proud Boys leaders mobilized a handpicked group of foot soldiers — or “tools” — to supply the force necessary to carry out their plot by. Defense attorneys have dismissed the government’s “tools” theory as a novel, flawed concept with no legal foundation.
The Proud Boys trial has lasted significantly longer than the judge and attorneys expected when jury selection began in December. The proceedings have been
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