In the seditious conspiracy case of Oath Keeper ringleader Elmer Rhodes and 10 other members of the far-right group alleged to have attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, prosecutors and defense attorneys spent Friday hashing out issues in federal court over evidence as they prepare the contours of a trial that will begin this summer.
Appearing before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Rakoczy announced that the government is nearing the end of its discovery process ahead of trial in July. They have collected and sorted nearly all of the data found on digital devices belonging to accused Oath Keepers, except those belonging to Rhodes and alleged co-conspirator, Edward Vallejo.
Review on their devices specifically is still underway, but should be complete in the next few weeks; most of the pertinent information is believed to have been found already.
Defense attorneys pushed back on the trial schedule, arguing that a massive global database set up by the Department of Justice for defendants to review and prep evidence has not been helpful at all, but rather, one big headache.
The DOJ’s “Capitol Siege global discovery plan”—set up so that all Jan. 6 defendants and their legal teams can have access to exculpatory material with supervision—is a huge trove of resources tied to the department’s sweeping investigation of the attack.
It contains thousands of hours of surveillance footage from U.S. Capitol and Metropolitan Police on duty on Jan. 6.
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