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Attorneys face deadline to wrap Jan. 6 prosecutions. That could slide if Trump wins
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With Donald Trump pledging pardons for Jan. 6 defendants and blasting the historic criminal cases, Nov. 5 looms large over the future of the largest prosecution in American history. So, too, might Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2025.
But former federal prosecutors, federal defenders and lawyers for defendants accused for crimes involving the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are focused on a different date: Jan. 5, 2026. That's the endgame for a federal probe that has yielded more than 1,420 defendants so far.
"If a case is not brought before that date, the government cannot then prosecute you, no matter how good the case," said Lucius Outlaw, a former federal defender and professor of law at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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