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Two of the four men accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers during the border blockade and protests at Coutts, Alta., will be released from custody today after pleading guilty to lesser charges.

On what was supposed to be the first week of trial, lawyers for the four men accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers during the border blockade and protests at Coutts, Alta., have asked a judge for an adjournment and to move the case from Lethbridge to a different city.

High-profile decisions and trials are set to take place in southern Alberta in 2023, including two related to pandemic restrictions.

One of the men accused of plotting to murder RCMP officers during the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., earlier this year told an undercover officer he had sold his home so he ‘could afford to be part of the revolution,’ according to newly unredacted documents.

Newly released records show police believed the Alberta men now accused of plotting to murder RCMP officers debated having two women smuggle a hockey bag filled with guns into a protest against pandemic-related restrictions.

The lawyer for a Lethbridge man accused of plotting to murder RCMP officers during the Coutts, Alta., border protests expressed frustration in court on Monday that trial dates have not yet been set.

One of four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder at a border blockade protest in southern Alberta wants to go directly to trial.

One of the four men accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers who were policing the border blockade and protests at Coutts, Alta., has been denied bail.

A bail hearing took place Tuesday for one of the four men charged with conspiring to murder RCMP officers at the Coutts border blockade last month.

Previous criminal convictions, a willingness to die for the cause and connections to a violent insurrectionist movement. CBC News has learned new details about some of the men and women arrested in connection with the Coutts, Alta., border blockades on Monday.