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Roger Parloff on the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Prosecutions

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Insurrectionists

One out of six cases has pled out. 75 per cent have been class b mins, misdemeanor. These are not people tetr you know, they're not pleading down from felonies. And ah ah, it's usually first offences. They're often mitigating circumstances. You have a violent mob, but a lot of the people in it are sort of walk ons and they play a role. If you're overwhelming the police, it's the numbers that allow you to do that. So there is a real attention. It's being resolved, i think, in a sensible way. But t, maybe the only way.

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