Guy Reffitt will face a jury in Washington, D.C., later this month as the first defendant accused of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to go on trial. But D.C. isn’t where he wanted his trial held.

Reffitt’s defense attorney, William Welch, filed a motion in September to move the trial to the Eastern District of Texas, where Reffitt is from. Welch argued that D.C. had been “bombarded” by news coverage of the Jan. 6 attack and that the jury pool in the District was biased against Reffitt.

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