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Comedic Actor Pleads Guilty in Capitol Riot
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Nov 2, 2024 3:55 PM CDT

Bob's Burgers Actor Gets Prison Time Over Capitol Riot

Jay Johnston sentenced to a year and a day behind bars

(Newser) - Comedic actor Jay Johnston has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for his role in the 2021 Capitol riot, reports the Hill . Among other things, prosecutors say he took part in a "heave-ho push" that pinned an officer against a door frame. Johnston, who has...

Harris to State Final Argument to Voters From the Ellipse

Democratic nominee will speak from the spot where Trump urged on his supporters on Jan. 6

(Newser) - Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver her closing argument to voters on Tuesday at the Ellipse in Washington, the place where then-President Donald Trump rallied supporters and urged them to march on the Capitol. Campaign officials said the Democratic presidential nominee is likely to speak about Trump's role in...

Ex-Funeral Home Owner Pleads Guilty to Capitol Riot Charges

Peter Moloney sprayed wasp killer at police, assaulted journalists

(Newser) - Peter Moloney, a former co-owner of a chain of Long Island funeral homes, has pleaded guilty to spraying wasp killer at police and assaulting two journalists during the Capitol riot. The 60-year-old could face up to nine years in prison when he is sentenced in February, the AP reports. Prosecutors...

Physician Who Slugged Officer in Capitol Sentenced

Jacquelyn Starer receives prison time after agreeing to not practice medicine any more in her state

(Newser) - A Massachusetts medical doctor who punched a police officer during a mob attack on the US Capitol was sentenced Thursday to nine months of imprisonment followed by nine months of home confinement. Jacquelyn Starer was in a crowd of rioters inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when she struck...

Jury Convicts First Rioter to Enter Capitol
First Rioter in Capitol
Learns His Fate
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Aug 28, 2024 12:00 AM CDT

First Rioter in Capitol Learns His Fate

Michael Sparks gets 4 years, 5 months behind bars

(Newser) - The Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the US Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to four years and five months in prison, the AP reports. Before learning his sentencing, Michael Sparks told the judge that he still believes...

'J6 Praying Grandma' Who Stormed Capitol Learns Her Fate

Rebecca Lavrenz, 72, owns a B&B in Colorado

(Newser) - A Colorado bed-and-breakfast operator who promotes herself online as the "J6 praying grandma" was sentenced on Monday to six months of home confinement in her Capitol riot case after the judge railed against "offensive" comments she has made about the criminal justice system, the AP reports. Prosecutors had...

Rioter Who Told Mob Democrats 'Need to Hang' Gets 20 Years

David Dempsey pleaded guilty in assaults on officers

(Newser) - A Donald Trump supporter who stood in front of a gallows set up near the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and named Democratic politicians he said "need to hang" was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Friday. Prosecutors said David Dempsey viciously attacked law enforcement officers...

Capitol Riot Defendant Held Over Threat to Barrett's Life

Officials say Bradley Scott Nelson hoped someone would kill justice after dissent

(Newser) - A Nevada man awaiting trial on charges that he stormed the US Capitol has been jailed after being accused of making threats directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other public officials. Bradley Scott Nelson's "escalating rhetoric" is grounds for detaining him until a hearing, a...

Trump: I'd 'Absolutely' Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters

'If they are innocent, I would pardon them,' he tells NABJ conference during interview

(Newser) - Former President Trump reiterated a promise on Wednesday to pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he returns to the White House. "Oh, absolutely I would," Trump told ABC News' Rachel Scott during the National Association of Black Journalists' conference in Chicago. "If they are innocent, I would pardon...

Marine Gets Prison for Role in 'Extreme Violence' on Jan. 6

Tyler Bradley Dykes, since discharged, took riot shield from officers

(Newser) - A Marine who stormed the US Capitol and was accused of flashing a Nazi salute in front of the building was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison. Tyler Bradley Dykes of South Carolina was an active-duty Marine when he grabbed a police riot shield from two police...

Supreme Court Leaves Bannon's Prison Date Intact

Trump ally has to start serving his sentence Monday

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid to delay a prison sentence for Steve Bannon as he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the US Capitol insurrection. Bannon filed an emergency appeal after a judge ordered him to report to prison July 1...

SCOTUS: Obstruction Charges for Capitol Rioters Now Trickier

Court finds charge must come with proof of an effort to tamper with documents

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that also has been brought against former President Trump. The justices ruled that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron...

Former Bob's Burgers Actor to Plead Guilty to Jan. 6 Charges

Jay Johnston faces multiple federal charges

(Newser) - Actor Jay Johnston, who was dropped as the voice of Jimmy Pesto on Bob's Burgers in 2021 after he was hit with Capitol riot charges, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges next month. Johnston, 55, faces charges including civil disorder and disorderly or disruptive conduct in a...

Candidate Walks Off Georgia Debate Stage After Statement

Chuck Hand, who was convicted of taking part in the Capitol riot, is running for Congress

(Newser) - A televised congressional debate in Georgia didn't go as planned Sunday when one of the two candidates abruptly walked off stage after his opening remarks, reports the Hill . "This is where I get back in my truck and head back to southwest Georgia, because I got two races...

State Lawmakers Boo Officers Hurt by Rioters

Some Pennsylvania Republicans applauded, Democrat says, and some walked out on Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell

(Newser) - After being introduced as "American heroes," two former police officers who were injured by rioters storming the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were booed and hissed on Wednesday in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives, reports the Washington Post . Multiple Republicans then walked out of the chamber, Democrats...

Appeals Court Upholds NYPD Veteran's Jan. 6 Sentence

Thomas Webster argued that entire Washington, DC jury pool was biased against him

(Newser) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a retired New York Police Department officer's conviction and 10-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the Capitol attack. A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Thomas Webster's claims that...

Judge Calls Defense by Rioter Who Wore Panda Head 'Absurd'

Jan. 6 prosecutors add convictions by Florida, New York defendants

(Newser) - Prosecutors have recorded two more convictions of Jan. 6 rioters, including one of a man who tried to conceal his identity by wearing a panda costume head in the Capitol. Jesse Rumson of Florida was convicted Friday in Washington of assaulting a police officer and the seven other charges he...

Trump Spills Plans for Migrants, Abortion If He Gets to WH

Ex-president lays out for 'Time' what his next administration would do if he's elected again

(Newser) - Donald Trump has been spending his days of late mired in court proceedings , but he took some time out last month in Palm Beach, Florida, to chat with Eric Cortellessa for a new profile entitled "If He Wins" in Time . The former president, who wants to be the next...

Judge Gives Prison to Instigator Who Disagreed With Rioters

John Sullivan mostly wanted to spark violence, court finds

(Newser) - The day of the attack on the US Capitol, John Sullivan led members of the mob into the building and filmed the death of fellow rioter Ashli Babbitt. Later, he posed as a journalist while selling the video footage to news organizations for more than $90,000. For that, Sullivan...

SCOTUS Skeptical About Charge Against Capitol Rioters
SCOTUS Skeptical About
Charge Against Capitol Rioters
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Apr 16, 2024 2:03 PM CDT

SCOTUS Skeptical About Charge Against Capitol Rioters

A decision against could upend prosecutions and possibly factor into Trump case

(Newser) - The Supreme Court sounded skeptical Tuesday about a key obstruction charge leveled against hundreds of Capitol rioters, reports the Hill . A decision along those lines could force prosecutors to reopen their cases and has the potential to undermine the federal case against former President Trump regarding his efforts to overturn...

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