Judge in Trump's election interference case rejects 'hostages' label for jailed Jan. 6 defendants
Source: AP
Updated 6:53 PM EDT, April 10, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) The judge overseeing former President Donald Trumps election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are hostages a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Capitol riot defendants who remain jailed in Washington, D.C., dont deserve to be called hostages or heroes for their actions during the mobs attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Theyre being kept there because they are dangerous people, Chutkan said during a sentencing hearing for Antony Vo, a man convicted of storming the Capitol with his mother.
During his trial, Vo attended a nightly vigil that supporters of Jan. 6 riot defendants hold outside the Washington jail. The judge previously ruled that Vos attendance at the vigil violated a condition of his release.
Chutkan rolled her eyes and shook her head when she learned from a prosecutor during Wednesdays hearing that the vigils organizers refer to their gathering spot outside the jail as Freedom Corner.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/judge-tanya-chutkan-trump-capitol-riot-93b33b1f1774e4e5c430f1598c7115a3
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riversedge
(71,498 posts)ck4829
(35,332 posts)SunSeeker
(52,689 posts)They tried to take away our most fundamental freedom--our right to vote--and install their Mango Mussolini.
ck4829
(35,332 posts)onetexan
(13,244 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)of course I don't think Trump paid attention passed elementary school.
republianmushroom
(15,653 posts)As are those that still sit in the senate and house, and an ex=president,
that was a part of this insurrection.
38 months and counting (includes foot dragging)
Traurigkeit
(1,271 posts)That is what they are due to not following written laws against what ACTIONs they did. That damn word Republicans and Right Wingers never liked: consequences