Trial opens for lawsuit against pardoned Capitol riot defendant over police officer’s suicide Jeffrey Smith's widow is trying to prove to a jury that one of the thousands of rioters is ...

A convicted Jan. 6 defendant found guilty of plotting to kill federal agents who investigated his role in the 2021 Capitol ...

Nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith shot and killed himself while driving to work.

But his sweeping act of clemency didn't erase Smith's lawsuit against Walls-Kaufman, a 69-year-old chiropractor who pleaded guilty to Capitol riot-related misdemeanor in January 2023.