Thread by @JordanOnRecord

Coming up next, at 11 a.m., Bryan Ivey, of Tennessee, will be before Judge Cooper for sentencing. Prosecutors say he was right next to Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola when he breached the Capitol. He then helped others enter through a door. They want him to serve 14 days in jail.

Judge Cooper says he's reviewed the case law and the decisions by Judges Lamberth and Kollar-Kotelly and he's not going to impose split sentences for petty misdemeanor cases until the D.C. Circuit rules on it.

AUSA Leslie Goemaat says Bryan Ivey led the mob into the Capitol through the broken window. They say he was the 14th person to enter the building on Jan. 6.

Ivey has claimed he was trying to stop people from breaking the window into the Capitol, but there's no video showing that. He also claimed he was not waiving people in, but trying to get out. He spent 35 minutes inside the building.

Goemaat says there are no after-the-fact statements from Ivey, unlike many other defendants. She says he wasn't exactly remorseful in his FBI interview, but he did describe the riot as a chaotic scene he was trying to get out of.

"After watching the Capitol violently breached with a riot shield, he chose to proceed with this incredibly transgressive act of entering through the window," Goemaat says about Bryan Ivey.

AUSA Goemaat says Bryan Ivey was one of the first 10 #CapitolRiot defendants to plead guilty, although his sentencing has been quite delayed. She says that speaks to his genuine remorse.

The DOJ says if Judge Cooper won't give a split sentence, they want him to order Bryan Ivey to serve 14 days intermittently in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons as a condition of probation. Pretrial services says BOP isn't onboard because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Ivey's attorney, Robert David Baker, says he was prone to "conspiratorial thinking" at the time on Jan. 6. He thought "the powers that be" were trying to remove Trump.

Baker says Ivey had previously sought mental health treatment through an employer because of some "strange ideas" he'd been voicing and paranoid thinking. But he didn't continue that treatment. He resumed after Jan. 6.

Baker says "certain media outlets have bombarded the public with the idea that this election was stolen."

Bryan Ivey: "I broke the law when I entered that window, and I'm sorry. I didn't understand at the time the magnitude of what I was getting myself into."

Bryan Ivey: "I genuinely believed, in every fiber of my being, that there was a global secret state that was plotting to kill off the majority of the human population."

Bryan Ivey: "I can guarantee the court I won't ever be involved in something like this again. I'm taking the steps and doing the work to make sure it won't ever happen."

Judge Cooper: "I don't punish people for what they believe, but it's clear to me the beliefs that brought you to D.C. were very destructive and dangerous." Encourages him to continue seeking mental health and substance abuse treatment.

🚨 SENTENCE: Bryan Wayne Ivey, of Tennessee, sentenced to 36 months of probation, including 60 days home detention, by Judge Christopher Cooper. Ivey will have to submit to regular drug testing & mental health treatment. He will also have to pay $500 in restitution. #CapitolRiot

Judge Cooper is also ordering Bryan Ivey to appear for a probation status hearing in 12 months so he can check in on him. He encourages Ivey to try to put this behind him and to continue to "keep your head down."