A U.S. appeals court on April 1 upheld the convictions of leaders of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. had told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that there was not sufficient evidence to convict them of charges of conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
A unanimous Sixth Circuit panel disagreed, concluding that evidence in the case “shows that both Fox and Croft … committed overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy,” including Fox traveling to and conducting surveillance on lakeside property owned by Whitmer….