{"id":368437,"date":"2018-07-07T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prosecutors-drop-all-remaining-charges-against-trump-inauguration-protesters\/"},"modified":"2018-07-07T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:52:51","slug":"prosecutors-drop-all-remaining-charges-against-trump-inauguration-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prosecutors-drop-all-remaining-charges-against-trump-inauguration-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Drop All Remaining Charges Against Trump Inauguration Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>More than three dozen defendants in the year-long #DisruptJ20 trial celebrated Friday evening after prosecutors dismissed all remaining charges against them, following a number of failures to prove the protesters were guilty of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state failed at silencing dissent and today our movement is stronger than it was on #J20,\u201d tweeted Dylan Petrohilos, who was charged with conspiracy, rioting, and destruction due to his participation in planning to protest \u2014 even though he did not attend. \u201cI\u2019m proud of all my co-defendants, and everyone in the streets who resisted fascism and state violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaaaannnnd the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/J20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#J20<\/a> trials are over. Government has dismissed charges against remaining 38 defendants. After charging more than 200 people with felonies, they got one single felony guilty plea. Pretty epic failure! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xQ9jBsEGfr\">pic.twitter.com\/xQ9jBsEGfr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanjreilly\/status\/1015318743625367553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped charges against 38 people who were among the 234 arrested on January 20, 2017 at a protest against President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. Some of the charges had carried sentences of more than 60 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The government initially charged the protesters with felony rioting, but were<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/j20-trump-inauguration-protesters_us_5b3fc53ee4b05127ccf1ee6a\">able to secure<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0only one guilty plea to the charge. Twenty pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters have been tried in groups, with six defendants<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/12\/21\/j20-trial-acquitted-inauguration-day-protest\/\">acquitted<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>late last year after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that the protesters were responsible for the property damage they were accused of committing.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also came under scrutiny for relying on videos shot by the right-wing group Project Veritas to build their case \u2014 leading to a judge\u2019s ruling in the trial of 10 protesters in May, that the government had withheld evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think it\u2019s a serious violation,\u201d Wasington DC Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin said of the prosecution\u2019s failure to disclose the entirely of Project Veritas\u2019s undercover video&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/prosecutors-drop-all-remaining-charges-against-trump-inauguration-protesters\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three dozen defendants in the year-long #DisruptJ20 trial celebrated Friday evening after prosecutors dismissed all remaining charges against them, following a number of failures to prove the protesters were guilty of wrongdoing. \u201cThe state failed at silencing dissent and today our movement is stronger than it was on #J20,\u201d tweeted Dylan Petrohilos, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}