Meggs attorney Stan Woodward:
“I don’t believe Mr. Meggs is a terrorist.”
“Mr. Meggs is not Stewart Rhodes. He is not a continuing risk to our society.”
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JUST IN: New Jan. 6 case against defendant Daniel WILSON describes active chatter among militia members on social media ... and some inspiration drawn from Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who was just sentenced to 18 years today. documentcloud.org/documents/2382
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Meggs is now directly addressing Officer Dunn, who is in the room, and says he apologizes if he caused him any fear that day. A US marshal steps in and tells Meggs to stop gesturing toward the gallery.
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MEGGS now telling his version of Jan. 6 that he declined to say on the stand. Says there was no plan to go inside the Capitol and that he is the one who deviated from the plan and took his people inside.
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Kelly MEGGS now addressing Judge Mehta, talking primarily about how his actions on Jan. 6 has destroyed his family, his life and his future. He says he's only ever told the truth about what happened on Jan. 6 (he opted not to testify in his trial).
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Now Zachary Meggs, 24, Kelly Meggs' son, is reading a letter to Judge Mehta.
Both of his parents are going to prison for their actions on Jan. 6.
Kelly Meggs has been crying as his family members talk about him.
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Unlike Rhodes, Meggs has character witnesses speaking at his sentencing. HIs sister Crystal is addressing the court now.
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MEHTA sets the guidelines for Meggs at: 188-238 months (~15.5-20 years)
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HAPPENING NOW: MEHTA is preparing to sentence Oath Keeper Kelly MEGGS for his conviction on seditious conspiracy. Mehta has agreed to add a terrorism enhancement to Meggs' sentence, though not as steep as the one he gave Stewart RHODES, who Mehta says "stands apart."
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“You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy."
“You are smart, you are compelling, and you are charismatic. Frankly, that is what makes you dangerous.”
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NEW: Stewart RHODES is going to jail for 18 years, the first sentence for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy.
A federal judge called him an "ongoing threat and a peril to this country."
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UPDATE: Garbled the big Mehta quote a bit. Here it is:
“You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy."
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MEHTA has now delivered the three longest Jan 6 sentences:
Rhodes: 18 years
Schwartz: 14 years
Webster: 10 years.
Yet all three were significantly less than what DOJ sought. (25, 24, 17, respectively)
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This sentence puts Rhodes, 58, in jail until well into his 70s. It's the steepest sentence, by four years, for any Jan. 6 defendant.
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BREAKING: RHODES sentenced to *18 years* in prison for seditious conspiracy.
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MEHTA to RHODES: “You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and its democracy and the very fabric of this country.
“You are smart, you are compelling, and you are charismatic. Frankly, that is what makes you dangerous.”
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MEHTA: "What we cannot have, we absolutely cannot have, is a group of citizens who because they didn’t like the outcome … were then prepared to take up arms in order to foment a revolution. That’s what you did."
"You are not a political prisoner, Mr. Rhodes."
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MEHTA is back on the bench. He'll be pronouncing Rhodes' sentence after he explains his reasoning.
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Rhodes closes by saying "My goal will be to be an ‘American Solzhenitsyn’ to expose the criminality of this regime, invoking the Soviet dissident and author of the “Gulag Archipelago.”
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Rhodes casting Oath Keepers as seeking to "deter" not cause violence.
“Unlike other groups like the Proud Boys who seek conflict and seek to street fight, we deter.”
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RHODES begins by saying "I am a political prisoner" and likens his position to Trump's.
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MEHTA's final guidelines calculation for Rhodes: 262-327 months (~22-27 years)
Next comese the actual sentencing allocution and sentence itself.
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MEHTA is going to apply the maximum "terrorism" enhancement to Rhodes' sentence. His analysis so far suggests a steep sentence is coming.
He describes Rhodes' conduct as an offense against "an institution of American democracy at its most important moment, the transfer of power"
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Prosecutors now making case for terrorism enhancement for Rhodes' sentence, describe him as someone "who for weeks if not months orchestrated and then led this conspiracy, who repeatedly advocated for the use of force."
He organized an "armed force," they say.
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HAPPENING NOW: Stewart RHODES is in the courtroom and Judge MEHTA is on the bench for his sentencing on a Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy.
Prosecutors are seeking 25 years for Rhodes.
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NEW: While Stewart Rhodes watched along in an orange jumpsuit, cops and congressional staffers described injuries — physical and emotional — that have haunted them every day since Jan. 6.
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The common theme for them all: Jan. 6 isn't the past for us. We (and many of our friends/colleagues) live through the trauma every day.
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UPDATE: The morning portion of the proceedings featured testimony from several victims of the Jan. 6 attack:
-USCP Officer David Lazarus
-USCP Officer Harry Dunn
-Pelosi Chief Terri McCullough
-Senate chambers assistant Virginia Brown
-MPD Officer Christopher Owens.
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HAPPENING NOW: Sentencing hearing underway for Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. Today will feature victim impact statements, including from and Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s chief of staff Terri McCullough.
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NEW: Trump’s legal team seeks a meeting with Attorney General Garland amid indications Jack Smith’s documents probe is nearing indictment stage.
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Has the vibe of something Trump dictated himself and that his lawyers worked to redraft into something resembling lawyering.
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Like clockwork, after report that the special counsel probe of Trump’s classified doc handling is nearing indictment, Trump reveals he had his lawyers today demand a meeting with Attorney General Garland
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NEWS: Lawyers for high-powered firm WilmerHale — including one who primarily represents major tech companies — squared off in a sealed proceeding Friday against a prosecutor associated with special counsel Jan. 6 probe.
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The nature of the sealed fight is unclear — but it was initiated in January before Judge Howell, who ruled in favor of DOJ on March 3. An appeals court panel soon rejected an effort to stay Howell’s ruling, and the case has been unfolding since.
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NEWS: Lawyers for high-powered firm WilmerHale — including one who primarily represents major tech companies — squared off in a sealed proceeding Friday against a prosecutor associated with special counsel Jan. 6 probe.
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An indignant Rudy Giuliani attends a DC hearing on Georgia pollworkers' defamation suit against him for claiming they engaged in ballot fraud in 2020 election. 'I've been dealing with this for 50 years,' the former Trump lawyer & NY mayor tells judge
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SPOTTED: Rudy GIULIANI has entered the federal courthouse in DC for a hearing in the defamation lawsuit brought by two GA election workers.
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Tarrio and Lamond's exchanges on Nov. 7, after election began being called for Biden.
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