Mistakes are that many plead guilty to avoid trials. Prediction is that more will go to trial with this news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/u...acquittal.html
Judge Finds Man Not Guilty in First Jan. 6 Acquittal
The defendant, Matthew Martin, had claimed the police let him into the Capitol during last year***8217;s pro-Trump riot. The judge agreed.
A federal judge decided on Wednesday that a former government contractor from New Mexico who claimed that the police let him into the Capitol during last year***8217;s pro-Trump riot was not guilty of four petty offenses, the first acquittal connected to the sprawling investigation of the attack. Ruling in favor of the defense, Judge Trevor N. McFadden said he found it plausible that Mr. Martin believed the police had let him in and thus had not knowingly gone into the building improperly. Judge McFadden acquitted Mr. Martin of four misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Not everything is black and white, as some would have you believe.