{"id":5228,"date":"2021-05-24T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:30:20","slug":"leniency-for-defendants-in-portland-clashes-could-affect-capitol-riot-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5228","title":{"rendered":"Leniency for defendants in Portland clashes could affect Capitol riot cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Federal prosecutors\u2019 show of leniency for some defendants charged in the long-running unrest in the streets of Portland could have an impact on similar criminal cases stemming from the Capitol riot, lawyers say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, prosecutors have approved deals in at least half a dozen federal felony cases arising from clashes between protesters and law enforcement in Oregon last summer. The arrangements \u2014 known as deferred resolution agreements \u2014 will leave the defendants with a clean criminal record if they stay out of trouble for a period of time and complete a modest amount of community service, according to defense attorneys and court records.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;prosecutors in D.C. can argue that what happened there is more serious even if the physical actions of the defendants were comparable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAttacking the Capitol is sui generis\u2014 it\u2019s in a category of its own,\u201d Levenson said. \u201cOne is the seat of government and the other is not.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/portland-capitol-riot-cases-481346\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/portland-capitol-riot-cases-481346<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Federal prosecutors\u2019 show of leniency for some defendants charged in the long-running unrest in the streets of Portland could have an impact on similar criminal cases stemming from the Capitol riot, lawyers say.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, prosecutors have approved deals in at least half a dozen federal felony cases arising from clashes between protesters and law enforcement in Oregon last summer. The arrangements \u2014 known as deferred resolution agreements \u2014 will leave the defendants with a clean criminal record if they stay out of trouble for a period of time and complete a modest amount of community service, according to defense attorneys and court records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;prosecutors in D.C. can argue that what happened there is more serious even if the physical actions of the defendants were comparable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttacking the Capitol is sui generis \u2014 it\u2019s in a category of its own,\u201d Levenson said. \u201cOne is the seat of government and the other is not.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1138,1135,1044,1134],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol-building","tag-insurrection","tag-prosecutors","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}