The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of top Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, marking a sweeping effort to erase some of the most serious criminal judgments stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest.
In a series of unopposed motions filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro‘s office requested that the court vacate the convictions and send the cases back to a lower court so the government can dismiss the indictments with prejudice.
The filings cover multiple groups of defendants, including Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, as well as Oath Keepers members such as Roberto Minuta, Edward Vallejo, Joseph Hackett, and David Moerschel. A third motion targets high-profile Oath Keepers leaders, including Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, and Jessica Watkins.
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