A York man who has been charged with moving police barricades and entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection is seeking to have his case delayed as a result of the recent presidential election, according to court records.
Gerald (also known as “Jeremiah”) Powell is scheduled to go to trial in 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, online court records state.
His attorney, William L. Shipley, Jr., filed a motion in court three days after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan halted all deadlines for filings in the election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump . Special counsel Jack Smith plans to wind down two federal prosecutions of Trump because of department policy against trying a sitting president, according to a source with the U.S. Justice Department.
Powell’s attorney wrote that Trump stated multiple times during the presidential campaign that “he intended to issue pardons, sentence commutations, order the dismissal of pending cases, and in other ways bring an end to the Department of Justice’s prosecutorial endeavors regarding the events of January 6, 2021.”