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Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal prosecutors are employing an unusual strategy to prove leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group orchestrated a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, even though some of the defendants didn't carry out the violence themselves. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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Man gets 4 years for attacking police at Jan. 6 Capitol riot
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
Tue,03/21/23-1:16PM , 69 Reads
A Virginia man who assaulted police with a stolen baton and used a flashing strobe light to disorient officers trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison.
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The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial Monday, March 6, 2023, on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as well as another riot defendant who has gone missing. An FBI agent said Monday that a federal judge in Washington issued bench warrants for the arrest of Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson III last week after the court was notified that they had tampered with or removed the ankle monitors that track their location. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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2 Capitol riot defendants sought by FBI after disappearing
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
Mon,03/06/23-3:25PM , 77 Reads
The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial Monday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as well as another riot defendant who has also gone missing, officials said.
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Defendant Alex Murdaugh is cross examined by prosecutor Creighton Waters while testifying in his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse, Feb. 24, 2023, in Walterboro, S.C. Prosecutors in the case against Murdaugh had no murder weapon or any other direct evidence linking him to the killings of his wife and son. Yet, a jury took less than three hours to convict him — thanks, in large part, to the defendant himself. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool, File)

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Murdaugh's fast conviction sealed by his testimony: experts
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
Fri,03/03/23-3:08PM , 91 Reads
Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his wife and son, yet a jury took less than three hours to convict him — thanks,
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Former Washington Archbishop, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick listens during a press conference in Washington, May 16, 2006. Lawyers for former Roman Catholic Cardinal McCarrick filed a motion Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, to dismiss a case charging him with sexually assaulting a boy decades ago, saying the 92-year-old once-powerful American prelate has dementia and is not competent to stand trial. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Ex-Cardinal McCarrick asks court to dismiss sex assault case
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
Mon,02/27/23-1:56PM , 85 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick filed a motion Monday to dismiss a case charging him with sexually assaulting a boy decades ago, saying the 92-year-old once-powerful American prelate has
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