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Daniel Harris, 24, said he was a former Marine who wanted to maintain his infantry skills when he joined a militia, the Wolverine Watchmen.

A major pitfall in arguing entrapment by the defense is that it means admitting to jurors the client did indeed commit the alleged crime. Jurors will need to be convinced they to would have acquiesced to committing a major felony under the right amount of deceit and pressure.

Four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must decide whether they will testify in their own defense as the trial moves toward...

Key evidence over 13 days of trial came from two undercover FBI agents and an informant who was among the extremists for months and made hours of secret recordings. Two men who avoided trial by pleading guilty provided critical testimony last week.

A man involved in the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot is accused of writing posts on social media about hanging governors.

The agent, known as 'Red' joined key members of the group on a 2020 trip to Elk Rapids to look at Gretchen Whitmer's vacation home and a nearby bridge they could blow up.

Ty Garbin testified against some of the men he says he plotted to kidnap the governor with on Wednesday during the trial. The goal was “to kidnap the governor,” he told a prosecutor.

The defense got its opportunity to cross-examine a crucial FBI informant known as “Big Dan" on Monday.

Dan Chappel, 35, was an Army veteran who said he simply went from looking for camaraderie in gun-rights groups to winning the confidence of the men and recording their conversations.

A man who identified himself as Stephen Robeson, a former FBI informant who helped build the case in ...