Nearly nine months have passed since the riot at the U.S. Capitol, and federal agents have arrested more than 600 people across the country believed to have joined in the Jan. 6 attack.
While John Schaffer was the first and one of the most high-profile Hoosiers to plead guilty to insurrection-related charges, many Indiana residents still await their final sentences.
Getting those cases swiftly to trial is turning out to be an even more difficult task.
Investigators have collected a mountain of evidence and are working to organize it and share it with defense attorneys. And that mountain keeps growing with new arrests still happening practically every week.
The most recent Indiana man charged in the January 6 insurrection, Antony Vo, has pled not guilty to charges filed in July.
Vo and several other Hoosiers are among those clogging Washington’s courts with Jan. 6 cases. A further complication is limitations on trials because of the coronavirus pandemic.