A man from Gravette, Arkansas is on trial in connection with the January 6 riots.
Court records show that three witnesses are on the docket to testify against 62-year-old Richard Barnett.
Prosecutors have charged Barnett with eight federal charges in the case as a part of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
The jury trail against him started on Tuesday, and on Wednesday three witnesses were called to the stand.
They included a member of Nancy Pelosi’s staff, a police officer at the Capitol, and a co-worker of Barnett’s at the Bass Pro Shops location in Rogers, Arkansas.
Barnett has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges he’s facing, which include:
- Obstruction of an official proceeding
- Aiding and abetting
- Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon
- Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon
- Entering and remaining in certain rooms in the Capitol Building
- Disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building
- Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building T
- heft of government property.