Case Report / District of Columbia
A Federal Capitol-Entry Charge, Dismissed in the District of Columbia
The prosecutions arising from the events of January 6, 2021 became the largest single investigation in the history of the Justice Department, and most of the resulting charges were petty offenses rather than felonies. In one 2021 matter in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a federal capitol-entry charge was dismissed. This report explains what that category of charge requires the government to prove and what a dismissal means procedurally.