As the Jan. 6 investigation broadens to encompass possible instigators not present, defense lawyers are pressing the FBI on informants in the defendants’ ranks—an issue jurors are proving sensitive to
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has expanded its investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and is gearing up for summer trials in some of the most serious related cases brought so far, just as some cracks in prosecutors’ strategies have started to emerge.
among hundreds of cases, of a man who said he believed police officers ushered him into the building, and acquitted another man of the more serious charge he faced. In both cases, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said the defendants didn’t engage in the violence and destruction at the heart of many of the Justice Department’s cases.
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