A breakdown of rioters charged and sentenced in the Justice Department's investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as of July 2022.
. The most common felony charges suspects face fall into three categories: interfering with police, obstruction of an official proceeding and trespassing. Defendants in the more than 500 ongoing cases together face almost a thousand felony counts.
As of mid-July, more than 200 people who participated in the riot at the Capitol have been sentenced, according to the analysis. Twenty-four defendants have been sentenced with felonies and 194 with misdemeanors alone. All of the defendants sentenced with felonies face incarceration; on average, each defendant was sentenced to about two years of prison time.
, a man from Florida who joined the front of the mob and hurled a fire extinguisher, plank and long pole at police, has been sentenced to the longest prison term so far: five years and three months in prison.Last week, the House committee investigating the efforts by the former president and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results
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