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Live Updates: Jury selection begins for first Capitol riot trial of Guy Reffitt

Here are the latest updates on Guy Reffitt, the first Jan. 6 defendant to go to trial.

WASHINGTON — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is no longer actively being updated. You can read the recap of day 1 here

A new blog will begin on day two of the trial. 

A man who was arrested last January after his son alerted authorities of his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection will be the first Capitol Riots defendant out of about 750 arrested to go to trial Monday.

TOP STORY: Jurors pressed on bias, fear as first Capitol riot trial begins

According to prosecutors, 49-year-old Guy Wesley Reffitt is an alleged member of the anti-government Three Percenters movement. Prosecutors plan to tell jurors that on Jan. 6, he came to D.C. with the intent of dragging members of Congress out of the Capitol "by their ankles." 

Three U.S. Capitol Police Officers are expected to testify that it took them multiple rounds of less-than-lethal munitions to stop him from doing so.

Reffitt's 19-year-old son, Jackson Reffitt, is also expected to testify.

Reffitt faces five felony counts, including bringing a handgun with him onto the Capitol terrace.

Live Updates

5:04 p.m. -- Voir dire called for the day. Lawyers say 25 jurors were qualified. Judge Friedrich says she believes they need 40 qualified jurors to have enough to impanel a jury after all the strikes. 

3:11 p.m. -- More than 20 potential jurors in and one admits to not having read any news on the riots. "The media sensationalize things," she said. 

3:02 p.m. -- By WUSA9's count, of 22 potential jurors who have taken the stand, six have been struck. 

2:54 p.m. -- Juror who answered "yes" to 17 of the 27 general intake questions that mean there might be an issue with their ability to serve as a juror, and who works at the Library of Congress and had staff sheltering in place on Jan.6, dismissed via unanimous consent that she should be struck. 

2:42 p.m. -- Another juror who lives near the Capitol and said he was at home and afraid on Jan. 6 dismissed without objection. 

2:22 p.m. -- Questioning ends for one juror without any objections, who said she lives in Capitol Hill but wasn't particularly inconvenienced or frightened by Jan. 6. The woman, who is over 70 and was told by the judge that she doesn't have to do jury duty because of her age, said she watches the news, and wants to be educated about what's going on in the world. 

2:11 p.m. --  Court back in session. Judge Friedrich says 10 potential jurors have been qualified so far. Each side will get four peremptory challenges.  

1:05 p.m. -- Court on recess for 1-hour lunch break. 

12:48 p.m. -- Jury selection continues. Reffitt's attorney has moved to strike another prospective juror after he said he viewed Jan. 6 as "an attack on my home." Says he has family who lives on Capitol Hill. They had troop transports parked on their streets. "It was a very scary time." 

11:30 a.m.-- After combing through several jurors, one prospective juror said he saw a story this morning on his way into the courthouse about jury selection starting in Guy Reffitt's case. Refitt's attorney moved to strike him for cause and Judge Friedrich approved after the DOJ tried to oppose. 

11:15 a.m. -- One of the prospective jurors said she would have a hard time believing a defendant in a Capitol Riot case is innocent until proven guilty. A motion from Reffitt's attorney was declared to strike this juror.

10:39 a.m. -- U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich told the prospective jurors that the case will be "unique" considering that many of them know about the historic Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S.Capitol. The first jury group is 28 women, 19 men: 31 white, 13 black, 3 Asian/South Asian.  

10:27 a.m. -- Prospective jurors were taken one by one into another courtroom to be asked individual questions.

10:07 a.m. -- Prospective jurors have been sworn in.

10:00 a.m. -- Jury selection for Guy Wesley Reffitt's trial begins. WUSA9 reporter Jordan Fischer says Reffitt is in the courtroom and his wife is present.

This story is developing. WUSA9 will share the latest LIVE coverage throughout the trial Monday.

BACKGROUND: A Three Percenter who was turned in by his kids after Jan. 6 goes on trial - Here's everything you need to know

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