Proud Boys convicted - Getting rid of passwords - Ed Sheeran copyright win

Source: Associated Press

1. Summary
   A jury in Washington, DC, found four members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021. A fifth defendant was cleared of the sedition charge, but he was convicted of several other felonies. It comes months after federal prosecutors won seditious conspiracy convictions for members of the Oath Keepers, another far-right group.
   
   Defense lawyers argued there was no concerted plot to attack the Capitol, but prosecutors were aided by hundreds of messages between Proud Boys members in the run-up to the riot. Among the convicted is former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was not present at the riot but encouraged the other members to act from afar.
   
   Seditious conspiracy is a rarely used charge that carries up to 20 years in prison. In 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr tried to use the charges against left-wing rioters, which law professors at UCLA and George Washington University criticized as a dangerous precedent.

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