Right-wing militia member Guy Reffitt was convicted on five charges related to his role in the violence in Washington, D.C., last Jan. 6
reports, prosecutors had tried to get the judge to hand down a harsher terrorism sentencing penalty that could’ve landed Reffitt in prison for 15 years, as opposed to the 9-to-11 years recommended under federal guidelines.Meanwhile, Reffitt’s lawyer, F. Clinton Broden, tried to secure a two-year stint for his client, arguing that Reffitt neither committed any violence, nor had any criminal history.
Ultimately, Judge Dabney L. Friedrich settled on 87 months for Reffitt. During the sentencing hearing, Friedrich called Reffitt’s views promoting political violence “absurd” and “delusional,” and criticized his efforts to boost his stature as a “patriot” and “martyr” from prison.“He is in a class of his own so far as I’m aware in terms of what he was doing there that day, and what he claimed what he was there to do,” Friedrich said.
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