The Justice Department and defense attorneys have revealed they are in plea negotiations in a growing series of January 6 cases, including cases involving high-level defendants.
With the former president's recent comments, there is the possibility of reduced leverage in any case in which defendants think they might obtain an 11th-hour reprieve from Trump. Those who are being tried for seditious conspiracy could face a maximum sentence of 20 years if convicted, so these defendants might still be in prison, if Trump were to run and win in 2024.
In May, Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected the request for release by January 6 defendant Karl Dresch, concluding that his promise"to take action in the future cannot be dismissed as an unlikely occurrence given that his singular source of information,..., continues to propagate the lie that inspired the attack on a near daily basis." Dresch's case has since been closed.
The department has also been inundated by evidence. It recently said there are 14,000 hours of Capitol surveillance video, 250 terabytes of data and more than 200,000 tips from the public.
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