Sentencing hearing underway for Trump fan Cleveland Meredith, who threatened Nancy Pelosi but arrived in D.C. after the Capitol attack due to car trouble.

Some of the hearing may be under seal (to discuss specific mental health issues). Judge Amy Berman Jackson presiding.
“I think Trump wants you to go home peacefully!!”

“Bullshit, he wants HEADS and I’m gonna deliver.”
DOJ says Meredith set out to attend Trump’s rally on Jan. 4, but had car issues on his way to DC. He arrived late in the afternoon on Jan. 6.

DOJ attorney quotes Meredith text: "someone has to take the TRASH out, FK THESE MTHRFKRS.”
Meredith’s attorney says he’s “a lot of talk” and he used “scary-sounding” language.

It was “bullshit,” his lawyer says.

Points out Meredith referred to himself as “Double0Dipshit.”
Judge Jackson says Meredith's advisory sentencing guidelines range is 37-46 months. Defense strongly objects to two sentencing enhancements. Jackson isn’t bound by the sentencing guidelines. Government advocating for a mid-guidelines sentence.
DOJ: “He threw aside the law for his own self-interest, and he brought this weaponry D.C…. There should be significant consequences for the defendant’s actions.”
DOJ: Meredith’s family members and friends urged him to stop. He wasn’t deterred.
Today is the anniversary of the death of Meredith’s younger sister, which his defense team says sent Meredith down the wrong path.
Defense attorney says Meredith found “meaning” in the world of QAnon.
Meredith’s attorney botches the facts about the case against Jan. 6 defendant Dawn Bancroft, who he claimed sent a Pelosi threat on social media. (It was sent to a friend, not posted on social media, which was an important distinction in the case.) huffpost.com/entry/dawn-ban…
Meredith “is ready to be a good father” and repair things with his family. “He is ready to disengage in the sort of extremism that is the context today,” his attorney says. He’ll be met with “love and open arms” at home, his attorney says.

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15 Dec
BREAKING: Judge Tanya Chutkan sentences Brandon Miller to 20 days behind bars. Stephanie Miller gets 14 days incarceration.

DOJ had asked for home confinement.

“They climbed through a broken window,” Chutkan emphasizes. “I’m not sure there’s any remorse." Image
“There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government beyond sitting at home,” Judge Tanya Chutkan previously said. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
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15 Dec
The Jan. 6er who fell for a Bumble sting wants to come back to DC again. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“Patriots ready and willing to head back.” huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
He still needs to check out those beer gardens. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-… Image
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14 Dec
The FBI has arrested Jan. 6 defendant Avery MacCracken, and the feds are once again crediting @SeditionHunters. #CoveredDragon

Court records don’t yet reflect DOJ’s position on the question of whether the court should, until trial, release MacCracken. ImageImage
"MacCracken punched Officer J.G. with his closed fist in the right cheek, causing a cut to the face under his right eye. Officer J.G. took a selfie-pic of his injuries and provided self-aid; he did not seek other medical care.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Image
The arrest warrant indicates that the defendant was arrested Saturday, which suggests that a local federal magistrate judge may have already released MacCracken.
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14 Dec
"The lie that the election was stolen and illegitimate is still being perpetrated… Worse, it’s become heresy for a member of the [former] president’s party to say otherwise.”

Judge Amy Berman Jackson at a sentencing today: huffpost.com/entry/qanon-tr…
“Canceling out the votes of others at the point of a gun is the utter anthesis of what America stands for. It is the definition of tyranny and of authoritarianism.” huffpost.com/entry/qanon-tr…
In an exercise of her discretion, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced the QAnon believer to 28 months in prison, and recommend he serve somewhere where he could get “intensive” mental health treatment. huffpost.com/entry/qanon-tr…
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13 Dec
NEW: In his letter to the judge, violent Jan. 6 rioter Robert Scott Palmer says he now realizes Trump supporters "were lied to by… the sitting President, as well as those acting on his behalf.”
"They kept spitting out the false narative about a stolen election and how it was 'our duty' to stand up to tyranny. Little did I realize that they were the tyrannical ones…"
"I am one of the Capitol riot people. A lot if not most of the defendants I have been incarcerated with would object to me saying that we were rioting.”

Posted here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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A college senior who stormed the Capitol and then bragged about her “infamy” on Instagram didn’t even vote in 2020, her lawyer said. huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-c…
Gracyn Courtright told the feds she started looking for somewhere to charge her phone once she stormed the Capitol. huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-c…
The “reality of the situation set in and she was back home with her family in West Virginia” and she “was totally embarrassed by her actions and was full of remorse,” her lawyer wrote.

“Her parents were furious with her.”

huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-c…
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