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   WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of far-right extremist groups. Former police   
   officers. An Olympic gold medalist swimmer. And active duty U.S. Marines.   
      
   They are among the hundreds of people who have been convicted in the   
   massive prosecution of the Jan 6, 2021, riot in the three years since the   
   stunned nation watched the U.S. Capitol attack unfold on live TV.   
      
   Washington’s federal courthouse remains flooded with trials, guilty plea   
   hearings and sentencings stemming from what has become the largest   
   criminal investigation in American history. And the hunt for suspects is   
   far from over.   
      
   “We cannot replace votes and deliberation with violence and intimidation,”   
   Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told   
   reporters on Thursday.   
      
   Authorities are still working to identify more than 80 people wanted for   
   acts of violence at the Capitol and to find out who placed pipe bombs   
   outside the Republican and Democratic national committees’ offices the day   
   before the Capitol attack. And they continue to regularly make new   
   arrests, even as some Jan. 6 defendants are being released from prison   
   after completing their sentences.   
      
   The cases are playing out at the same courthouse where Donald Trump is   
   scheduled to stand trial in March in the case accusing the former   
   president of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the run-up   
   to the Capitol attack.   
      
   “The Justice Department will hold all Jan. 6 perpetrators at any level   
   accountable under the law, whether they were present that day or otherwise   
   criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy,” Attorney General   
   Merrick Garland said Friday. He said the cases filed by Graves and the   
   special counsel in Trump’s federal case, Jack Smith, show the department   
   is “abiding by the long-standing norms to ensure independence and   
   integrity or our investigations.”   
      
   A look at where the cases against the Jan. 6 defendants stand:   
      
   BY THE NUMBERS   
      
   More than 1,230 people have been charged with federal crimes in the riot,   
   ranging from misdemeanor offenses like trespassing to felonies like   
   assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy. Roughly 730 people   
   have pleaded guilty to charges, while another roughly 170 have been   
   convicted of at least one charge at a trial decided by a judge or a jury,   
   according to an Associated Press database.   
      
   Only two defendants have been acquitted of all charges, and those were   
   trials decided by a judge rather than a jury.   
      
   About 750 people have been sentenced, with almost two-thirds receiving   
   some time behind bars. Prison sentences have ranged from a few days of   
   intermittent confinement to 22 years in prison. The longest sentence was   
   handed down to Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys national chairman who   
   was convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as a   
   plot to stop the transfer of power from Trump, a Republican, to Joe Biden,   
   a Democrat.   
      
   Many rioters are already out of prison after completing their sentences,   
   including some defendants who engaged in violence. Scott Fairlamb — a New   
   Jersey man who punched a police officer during the riot and was the first   
   Jan. 6 defendant to be sentenced for assaulting law enforcement — was   
   released from Bureau of Prisons’ custody in June.   
      
   ALL EYES ON THE SUPREME COURT   
      
   Defense attorneys and prosecutors are closely watching a case that will   
   soon be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court that could impact hundreds of Jan.   
   6 defendants. The justices agreed last month to hear one rioter’s   
   challenge to prosecutors’ use of the charge of obstruction of an official   
   proceeding, which refers to the disruption of Congress’ certification of   
   Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over Trump.   
      
   More than 300 Jan. 6 defendants have been charged with the obstruction   
   offense, and so has Trump in the federal case brought by special counsel   
   Jack Smith. Lawyers representing rioters have argued the charge was   
   inappropriately brought against Jan. 6 defendants.   
      
   The justices will hear arguments in March or April, with a decision   
   expected by early summer. But their review of the obstruction charge is   
   already having some impact on the Jan. 6 prosecutions. At least two   
   defendants have convinced judges to delay their sentencings until after   
   the Supreme Court rules on the matter.   
      
   RIOTERS ON THE LAM   
   Dozens of people believed to have assaulted law enforcement during the   
   riot have yet to be identified by authorities, according to Graves. And   
   the statute of limitations for the crimes is five years, which means they   
   would have to be charged by Jan. 6, 2026, he said.   
      
   Several defendants have also fled after being charged, including a Proud   
   Boys member from Florida who disappeared while he was on house arrest   
   after he was convicted of using pepper spray gel on police officers.   
   Christopher Worrell, who spent weeks on the lam, was sentenced on Thursday   
   to 10 years in prison.   
      
   The FBI is still searching for some defendants who have been on the run   
   for months, including a brother-sister pair from Florida. Olivia Pollock   
   disappeared shortly before her trial was supposed to begin in March. Her   
   brother, Jonathan Pollock, is also missing. The FBI has offered a reward   
   of up to $30,000 for information leading to the arrest of Jonathan   
   Pollock, who is accused of thrusting a riot shield into an officer’s face   
   and throat, pulling an officer down steps and punching others.   
      
   Another defendant, Evan Neumann, fled the U.S. two months after his   
   December 2021 indictment and is believed to be living in Belarus.   
      
   WHAT ABOUT THE PIPE BOMBER?   
   One of the biggest remaining mysteries surrounding the riot is the   
   identity of the person who placed two pipe bombs outside the offices of   
   the Republican and Democratic national committees the day before the   
   Capitol attack. Last year, authorities increased the reward to up to   
   $500,000 for information leading to the person’s arrest. It remains   
   unclear whether there was a connection between the pipe bombs and the   
   riot.   
      
   Investigators have spent thousands of hours over the last three years   
   doing interviews and combing through evidence and tips from the public,   
   said David Sundberg, assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington   
   Field Office.   
      
   “We urge anyone who may have previously hesitated to come forward or who   
   may not have realized they had important information to contact us and   
   share anything relevant,” he said in an emailed statement on Thursday.   
      
   The explosive devices were placed outside the two buildings between 7:30   
   p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021, but officers didn’t find them until   
   the next day. Authorities were called to the Republican National   
      
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