The Supreme Court of the United States is considering a petition from a January 6 defendant that has the chance to affect hundreds, if not thousands of cases.
The petition for writ of certiorari, a type of appeal to the Supreme Court to review a lower court case, has been filed by a J6 defendant named Edward Lang. Lang contends that he attended the protest at the Capitol grounds on January 6 and was swept up into a riot, where he was compelled to defend himself from violence. In the course of the rioting, he assaulted a police officer, as he contends, to defend himself from harm.
As the petition states, the SCOTUS’ decision “will influence scores, if not hundreds, of prosecutions arising from the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.” The legal filing argues that the court should review the case “to rein in prosecutors” who are misapplying federal statutes in a “potentially dangerous manner.”
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