A Jan. 6 rioter who filmed the insurrection at the Capitol, including the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt, was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison. John Earle Sullivan, 29, was convicted in November on charges that include felony obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder. His sentenced also includes 36 months of supervised release and an order to pay $2,000 in restitution, according to the Justice Department. Sullivan had claimed he was a journalist when he joined — and...
Federal prosecutors say Utah man encouraged supporters of former president to storm the Capitol and use violence
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced a Maryland man to five-and-a-half years in federal prison.
Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Washington D.C. has denied seven motions from a defendant seeking to identify FBI agents in Jan. 6 crowds and gain access to undercover videos shot by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers, at least one of whom incited the crowds at the U.S. Capitol. Former FBI special agent John Guandolo (center) with two possible...
A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison. David Joseph Gietzen, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole during a mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. JAN. 6 WAS NOT AN INSURRECTION, SAYS TURLEY, WARNS DEMOCRATS OF 'SLIPPERY SLOPE' THREATENING DEMOCRACY Gietzen told U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols that he didn't intend to hurt anybody...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter On Tuesday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which could potentially impact former President Donald Trump in his ongoing
WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court today questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that also could affect the prosecution of former President Donald Trump, who faces the same charge for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020.
Despite his wife’s backing of Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ignored calls to recuse himself from recent Jan. 6-related appeals. Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that his questioning Tuesday in such a case appeared to downplay the insurrection. At the oral arguments in an appeal over an obstruction law used against many Jan. 6 rioters, Thomas told the Justice Department’s lawyer, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar,...
One victim said in his statement that O’Brien “betrayed me to my inner core”.
WASHINGTON D.C. April 26, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A Utah man was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for his leading role with a bullhorn and a knife while filming the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising. John Earle Sullivan, 29, of Salt Lake City, was sentenced on felony and misdemeanor charges related to his conduct […] The post Utah man sentenced to 72 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 insurrection first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
Because I’ve followed the progress of so many of the January 6 defendants’ trials, I was fully aware of the implications — and the government’s misapplication — of the much-discussed Section 1512(c)(2) felony that has been applied to more than 350 cases. But it wasn’t until I heard the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court grill Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar that I became genuinely frightened by the overreach of the Justice Department’s never-before-used application of this law. ...