Jury reaches at least a partial verdict in the #ProudBoys #Jan6 seditious conspiracy trial #legal
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jury-reaches-partial-verdict-proud-boys-jan-6/story?id=98871626
Jury reaches at least a partial verdict in the #ProudBoys #Jan6 seditious conspiracy trial #legal
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jury-reaches-partial-verdict-proud-boys-jan-6/story?id=98871626
2/ #BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
KELLY now discussing with the lawyers what to do after accepting the partial verdict. DOJ urging Kelly to send jurors back to keep deliberating on non-unanimous counts.
Biggs attorney Norm PATTIS and Rehl attorney Carmen HERNANDEZ are urging the judge to decline to take a partial verdict until the jury has explicitly said they're deadlocked on the unresolved counts.
3/ #BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
KELLY will take the partial verdict, however, and tell the jury it may continue deliberating on the remaining counts. So it should be coming momentarily.
4/ NOW! ππΌππΌ#BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
(Via Harry Litman, FYI: Basic issue for jury: did Proud Boys 5 get caught up in fervor & storm in or did they plan violence in advance. Latterβ-> seditious conspiracy)
BAM!!! Via Kyle Cheney: #GUILTY
NOW: Proud Boy Ethan Nordean *convicted* of seditious conspiracy.
(Other defendants to follow in this order: Biggs, Rehl, Tarrio, Pezzola) #legal
5/ NOW! ππΌππΌ#BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
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BIGGS: Guilty
REHL: Guilty
TARRIO: GUILTY OF SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY
SO:
COUNT 1: Seditious Conspiracy
Ethan Nordean: GUILTY
Joseph Biggs: GUILTY
Zachary Rehl: GUILTY
Enrique Tarrio: GUILTY
Dominic Pezzola: [NO VERDICT]
6/ NOW! ππΌππΌ#BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
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THIS IS HUGE, PEOPLE. A BFD.
MORE: All defendants but PEZZOLA also guilty of conspiracy to obstruct Congress. Jury appears deadlocked on Pezzola for both of first two counts.
However ALL defendants, including PEZZOLA, guilty of actual obstruction of Congress.
7/NOW! ππΌππΌ#BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
#legal
Via Scott MacFarlane:
Tarrio was NOT at Capitol on Jan 6
A conviction on charge of seditious conspiracy is a huge win for Justice Dept. ππΌππΌAnd a potential piece of enormous leverage for any future defendant who wasnβt at Capitol on Jan 6 β¦ but is considered part of the conspiracyππΌππΌ