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The Washington Post reports:
Two months into one of the biggest criminal investigations in U.S. history, prosecutors are preparing to start plea discussions as early as this week with many of the more than 300 suspects charged in the U.S. Capitol riot — even as investigators race to piece together larger conspiracy cases against those suspected of the most serious crimes, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The planned plea talks follow efforts by the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office, which is overseeing the prosecutions, to first create a system for efficiently organizing what they expect will be upward of 400 criminal cases and the growing pile of associated evidence, these people said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Read the full article. Plea agreements often stipulate cooperation in investigations against bigger fish.
Prosecutors are preparing to start plea discussions as early as this week with many of the more than 300 suspects charged in the Capitol riot.
Prosecutors have wanted to sort “misdemeanor plea offers, felonies, felonies with substantial [prison] time.”https://t.co/3FGZj7mWL8
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