North Texas man's charges connected to Jan. 6 Capitol riot dismissed

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the remaining criminal cases against members of the Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, closing the final chapter of the Justice Department's prosecution of the riot.Judge dismisses final Oath Keepers casesU.S. District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the cases against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and eight other defendants after the Justice Department moved to vacate their convictions.Stewart Rhodes lives in Granbury.The defendants had already been released after President Donald Trump commuted their prison sentences as part of a sweeping clemency order covering nearly all of the roughly 1,600 people charged in the Capitol attack. Unlike most Jan. 6 defendants, the nine received sentence commutations rather than full pardons, leaving their convictions intact until the Justice Department sought to dismiss them.Rhodes, who had been serving an 18-year sentence before Trump c