The first Jan. 6 rioter to face trial is now the second to receive a reduced sentence following the Supreme Court’s narrowing of an obstruction charge used against scores of participants in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man who was the first rioter to go on trial for the Jan. 6 ... a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that led to the dismissal of his conviction on an obstruction charge.

Reffitt is one of several Jan. 6 defendants to be resentenced after a Supreme Court ruling in June limited the government’s ...

WASHINGTON — A Texas man who was the first rioter to go on trial for the Jan. 6 ... a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that led to the dismissal of his conviction on an obstruction charge.

Guy Reffitt benefitted from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ... that applies to few Jan. 6 criminal cases. A jury convicted Reffitt of four other counts, including a charge that he threatened his ...