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Evgeni Kopankov's guilty plea was upended during his 2022 sentencing hearing, and later withdrawn altogether, and things went even worse for the U.S. Government after he went to trial this year.
Nine other men were convicted at separate trials for 2020 kidnapping conspiracy
The last three men to stand trial in connection with a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were found not guilty on all counts. William Null, his twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor were among a group of 14 men charged in state and federal court over an alleged plot to kidnap the…
In the latest trial, the jury heard 14 days of testimony in Antrim County, which is the location of Whitmer's second home, 185 miles (297 kilometers) north of the state Capitol.
Out of the 14 men charged in the kidnapping scheme, Eric Molitor is only the second to testify in trial on his own behalf.