Oath Keepers trial resumes after Rhodes assessments constructive for coronavirus

Rhodes, 56, talking by phone from jail to the courthouse in D.C., waived his constitutional proper to be current for testimony of eight authorities witnesses who his attorneys stated had been much less crucial to his protection as a result of they’d converse to occasions contained in the Capitol, which Rhodes isn’t accused of coming into.

The transfer allowed the fourth week of testimony to renew after a one-day break within the trial of Rhodes and 4 others, nevertheless it may stop the federal government from finishing its case Friday as prosecutors deliberate. Rhodes’s protection stated he needed to be current for testimony by at the very least one and doubtlessly a number of Oath Keepers witnesses who’ve pleaded responsible to conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

U.S. District Decide Amit P. Mehta stated he would verify his understanding that jail quarantine protocols would stop Rhodes from taking part in his trial by video convention or to be transported to courtroom till Monday on the earliest.