Appeals Court Hears Claim Of Jury Bias Against Rioters

The Washington Post reports:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will debate Tuesday whether D.C. jurors are unfairly biased against people charged with committing crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s an argument with relevance for former president Donald Trump, who plans to try to get his trial moved out of D.C. where he faces federal charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election.

The appeal comes from Thomas Webster, a veteran of the New York Police Department who tackled a D.C. officer on the grounds outside the Capitol. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Webster was convicted of assaulting a police officer in 2022. But he has argued for a new trial, saying D.C. jurors were biased against him through media coverage, their own experience of Jan. 6 and their political leanings.

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A federal appeals court will debate whether D.C. jurors are unfairly biased against people charged with crimes related to the Capitol attack, an argument with relevance for former president Donald Trump. https://t.co/WVQq5BKzwB

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