WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are seeking sentences of 27 to 33 years in federal prison in the cases of four Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and 20 years for a fifth Proud Boy found guilty on other charges.

Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean and Zachary Rehl were all convicted of seditious conspiracy in May following a months-long trial that began in January. A fifth defendant, Dominic Pezzola, was acquitted of the seditious conspiracy charge, but found guilty of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. Pezzola smashed a Capitol window with a stolen police shield, leading the first breach of the building.

 

Prosecutors are seeking 33 years in federal prison for Tarrio and Biggs, 30 years for Rehl, 27 years for Nordean, and 20 years for Pezzola.

Sentencing hearings are set for the week of Aug. 28, which is also when a federal judge in D.C. will set the trial date for Donald Trump's election interference trial.

 

Prosecutors said that the Proud Boys were guilty of crimes of terrorism, and that it was important that the sentences they receive "be noted by those who would foment such political violence in the future." The justice system’s response to Jan. 6 "will impact whether January 6 becomes an outlier or a watershed moment," prosecutors wrote.

 

"The defendants understood the stakes, and they embraced their role in bringing about a 'revolution.' They unleashed a force on the Capitol that was calculated to exert their political will on elected officials by force and to undo the results of a democratic election. The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power," prosecutors wrote. "They failed. They are not heroes; they are criminals."

 

 

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Sounds about right to me perhaps a bit lite but it will do .be fun if they can serve their time with their master the New York trust fund baby draft dodging pow insulting baby man trump!

Who thinks Trump is going to get home detention?

27 to 33 years in the slammer is fair.

 

Seditious conspiracy is a serious crime.

 

They’ll be broken old men by time they see freedom again, if they make it that long.

Good enough.

On 8/18/2023 at 10:09 AM, Tug said:

Sounds about right to me perhaps a bit lite but it will do .be fun if they can serve their time with their master the New York trust fund baby draft dodging pow insulting baby man trump!

 

On 8/18/2023 at 1:47 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

27 to 33 years in the slammer is fair.

 

Seditious conspiracy is a serious crime.

 

They’ll be broken old men by time they see freedom again, if they make it that long.

Good enough.

I'm afraid that I disagree.

Not because I approve, in any way, with what they did. It was entirely, utterly, wrong, and (although a conservative on the British political spectrum) I think their brand of right wing neofascist politics, underpinned by anti semetism, racism and belief in white supremacy, entirely loathsome.

 

The courts were sending a very clear message, quite rightly in my opinion; but sentences in the 15 to 20 year range would have sufficed to send that message, and would have acted as a deterrent to anyone thinking of similar actions. 33 years is silly, as stupidly excessive as their own inflated opinions of what they could achieve, and will only lead to "martyrdom".

3 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

 

I'm afraid that I disagree.

Not because I approve, in any way, with what they did. It was entirely, utterly, wrong, and (although a conservative on the British political spectrum) I think their brand of right wing neofascist politics, underpinned by anti semetism, racism and belief in white supremacy, entirely loathsome.

 

The courts were sending a very clear message, quite rightly in my opinion; but sentences in the 15 to 20 year range would have sufficed to send that message, and would have acted as a deterrent to anyone thinking of similar actions. 33 years is silly, as stupidly excessive as their own inflated opinions of what they could achieve, and will only lead to "martyrdom".

The courts have more information than we have I personally think what the DOj is asking is appropriate in many countries they would have been executed for their (silly) actions in leading an attempt to KILL our democracy