Some accused of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a crowd of supporters of the now president-elect Donald Trump They asked this Wednesday, without success, to delay their legal proceedings in the hope that he would keep his promise to pardon them.
According to reports Washington Post, American justice refused to delay at least three cases linked to the attackand one of the attorneys who addressed the court said he was preparing to file further motions to stay other cases that already had trials or sentencing scheduled.
During the campaign, Trump said he was considering a presidential pardon for everyone convicted of the assault, a violent attempt to stop the process of certifying the president’s election victory. Joe Bidenin which five people died and around a hundred agents were attacked.
So far, more than 1,500 people have been charged – the majority for minor charges and a minority for violent crimes – of whom around 1,000 have been convicted and 650 have been sentenced to prison, as the leader of the far-right organization Proud Boys. , Enrique Tarrioat age 22, convicted of, among other crimes, sedition.
The Post cited as one of the first to address the court this Thursday Christopher Carnell21-year-old, whose lawyers cited Trump’s “multiple promises of clemency,” “particularly toward nonviolent participants” in the Capitol assault, and whose request was quickly rejected by the judge, according to reports. Efe.
He also cites Jaimee Averysentenced after pleading guilty to trespassing and awaiting sentencing this Friday, whose public defender requested a postponement due to the “real possibility that the next attorney general” will drop the charges, but who also did not got the desired response from a judge.
Meanwhile, the lawyer William Shipleywho has represented about 20 defendants, told the newspaper that a judge today rejected his attempt to postpone a case that was scheduled to go to trial next week.
Trump, who did not detail the content or scope of these possible pardon measures for his supporters who participated in the insurrection, will be inaugurated as the new president of the United States on January 20.
