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Jan. Sixers Are Using Sovereign Citizen Defenses to Try and Get Out of Prison

‘MARITIME LAW’

Nearly a dozen Capitol riot defendants have invoked phony legal theories in their cases. That includes bloody fingerprints and attacks on their own lawyers.

Kelly Weill
Kelly Weill
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Kelly Weill

Kelly Weill

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