Former police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 found guilty on all six charges.
with the government last month. Fracker, a Trump supporter, admitted he participated in a conspiracy to “corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede" the certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.Fracker testified that he decided to plead guilty and cooperate because he could cut down on his exposure to prison time and because he was thinking of his young daughter.
Robertson's misdemeanor convictions were never really in doubt. Mark Rollins, his attorney, even argued in his closing argument that the jury should convict his client on several of the misdemeanor charges, conceding that there was no good argument to find his client not guilty. But Rollins argued that the jury should acquit Robertson of felony charges, arguing that he never purposefully interfered with police officers Jan.
“This defendant gleefully put himself in the thick of the initial round of rioters who set off hours of chaos inside the Capitol,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower told jurors in closing arguments Friday. Nearly 800 people have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, almost 250 of whom have pleaded guilty.
In addition to the two jury trials, two defendants have resolved their cases through bench trials, including a defendant who was
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