A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.
It’s good that he’s going away for 22 years. However, the sentencing guidelines called for between 324 to 405 months (27-33 years) so by the Judge’s own calculations this is a miscarriage of justice and yet another example of a right wing domestic terrorist being handled with kid gloves. Fucking disgraceful.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384 for what he was convicted of, seditious conspiracy, is 20 years max. How they got 22 is odd, maybe there were additional charges not mentioned in the article.
According to reporting by the BBC there was a terrorism adjustment/enhancement.
Seems like, what I’ve found is that a terrorism adjustment can at most add 8 years to the sentence. So because he wasn’t even in the city at the time, he probably got something like a 16-year sentence for seditious conspiracy with the terrorism adjustment being 6 years, bringing the total to 22 years. It doesn’t seem like a slap on the wrist to me but he also wasn’t tried for terrorism directly. That’s a much harder-to-prove charge and the DA probably just wants to get him on what they already have strong evidence for.
That said I also believe we shouldn’t see prison as punishment but instead reform. 22 years should be enough time to reform him.
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I mean it’s America. I’m not holding my breath for actual reform. 22 years might naturally return him but realistically he’ll come out more extremist. Even if it was 5 years he’d come out more extremist because it’s America.
It’s federal charges tho so he may have plead some of them down to get to 22 instead of 27-32, right?