Federal prosecutors charged more than 40 Georgians with participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, including more than a dozen accused of assaulting police officers or other acts of violence.
President Donald Trump granted clemency to all of them.
Six Georgia defendants had already been convicted at trial and now have been granted “full, complete and unconditional” pardons, including 23-year-old Jake Maxwell.
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