Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was
convicted on Tuesday along with one of his subordinates of seditious
conspiracy as a jury found them guilty of seeking to keep former
President Donald J. Trump in power through an extensive plot that
started after the 2020 election and culminated in the mob attack on the Capitol.

The jury in Federal District Court in Washington found three other
defendants in the case not guilty of sedition and acquitted Mr. Rhodes
of two separate conspiracy charges.

The split verdicts, coming after three days of deliberations, were a
landmark — if not total — victory for the Justice Department, which
poured enormous effort into prosecuting Mr. Rhodes and his four
co-defendants.

The sedition convictions marked the first time in nearly 20 trials
related to the Capitol attack that a jury had decided that the violence
that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, was the product of an organized conspiracy.

Seditious conspiracy is the most serious charge brought so far in any of
the 900 criminal cases stemming from the vast investigation of the
Capitol attack, an inquiry that could still result in scores, if not
hundreds, of additional arrests. Mr. Rhodes, 57, was also found guilty
of obstructing the certification of the election during a joint session
of Congress on Jan. 6 and of destroying evidence in the case. On those
three counts, he faces a maximum of 60 years in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-verdict-jan-6.html

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