A jury is weighing the fate of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
CHICAGO -- Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device - a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other's IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
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