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Asia Womack's mother called Cameron Hogg's plea deal "a slap in the face" after he was sentenced to 20 years for shooting her daughter in Dallas in 2022.
Robert Crimo Jr. helped obtain a firearms license for his then-teenaged son, who is now charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July event.
Paul Hodgkins, who paraded through the Senate chamber with a "Trump 2020" T-shirt and flag, was the second Jan. 6 defendant to strike a plea deal.
A federal judge said the special counsel's office is "no longer bound by its obligations" after the former Trump campaign chairman lied.
Special counsel Robert Mueller alleged in a court filing that the former Trump campaign chairman lied to investigators.
The former Trump campaign chairman pleaded guilty to two charges involving criminal conduct as part of a plea deal with the special counsel's office.
Trump's former campaign chairman had already been convicted of several felonies and was about to face another trial in the special counsel's investigation.
Prisoners, on average, have roughly a one-in-ten shot at a successful outcome.