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LurkerNoMore:
What a dumb bitch.  "God gave man the law."   ::) 

Well.. as Colbert said it best... "Divinely empowered? So she's going to get away scot-free, just like Jesus," Colbert joked. "But it does raise the question: If you're chosen by God to be above the laws of government, why do you care who's in charge of it?"

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Judge convicts northwestern Pa. woman in Capitol riots; she yelled for Pelosi to hang.

After she was arrested for rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and accused of demanding that then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi be dragged out so insurrectionists could hang her, Pauline Bauer told a judge that the law does not apply to her.

"You don't have jurisdiction over me, a free living soul, a woman," Bauer, a Pennsylvania resident, said in June 2021, at her arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C.

"I stand above the law, because God gave man the law," Bauer also said, according to a transcript.

Bauer will have to answer to the law nonetheless.

The 55-year-old restaurant owner from Kane, in McKean County, has been convicted of all five felony and misdemeanor charges against her over the breach of the Capitol. She will be sentenced on May 1.

Bauer was convicted at a nonjury trial on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden presided over the trial, which started on Thursday. Bauer waived a jury trial and opted for a bench trial.

Bauer, who remains free on her own recognizance, was one of four people arrested in the Capitol riots who had their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Erie, which covers seven counties in northwestern Pennsylvania and is about 90 miles west of Kane. The cases were transferred to federal court in Washington, D.C.

Two of the other defendants, including Bauer's friend, William Blauser, also of Kane, have pleaded guilty. The case against the fourth defendant is pending.

Bauer was convicted of the felony of obstruction of an official proceeding and the misdemeanors of entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in any of the Capitol buildings with the intent to impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress or either house of Congress; and parading, demonstrating and picketing in a Capitol building.

Bauer faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on the obstruction charge and a maximum of another three years on the misdemeanor counts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said in a news release. The sentence she will receive depends on how the judge applies the federal sentencing guidelines and other factors.

In September 2021, Judge McFadden ordered Bauer to be jailed for violating conditions of her pretrial release, according to the Associated Press. Bauer remained in custody for several months while awaiting a trial. The judge can give her credit for the jail time that she already has served.
'Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now'

The evidence against Bauer included Facebook posts and police body-camera video, the government said.

Bauer was among the mob that stormed the Capitol after attending then-President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally. Bauer and the others sought to disrupt the certification of the election for President Joe Biden.

When Bauer was inside the Capitol shortly before 3 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, another person near her said, "This is where we find Nancy Pelosi," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Bauer, the office said, was standing approximately 30 feet from Pelosi's office when she was recorded saying, "Bring that (expletive) (expletive) out here now. Bring her out. Bring her out here. We’re coming in if you don't bring her out here."

Bauer pushed a police officer who was trying to remove her from the area, screaming at him and telling him, "You back up. Don't even try," the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Police in riot gear eventually removed her from the rotunda of the Capitol.

During the storming of the Capitol, according to the FBI, Bauer also told police officers: "Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that (expletive) (expletive). Bring her out. We're coming in if you don't bring her out. What are you trying to do, protect a (expletive) Nazi?"
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LurkerNoMore:
Why are all these "patriots" such crybabies?   :'(  These wimps are the ones that are going to kick off the next civil war and lead the new revolution?   ::)

68 months.  Good times!!  Well not for him.  He already lost a shitload thanks to the orange turd and his lies.

Imagine how hard he is going to cry when his wife divorces him and finds a real man.


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Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed line of police sentenced after tearful apology.

A Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed a chemical irritant at about 15 police officers — and later bragged about it in a video interview — was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in prison. This is one of the stiffest Jan. 6 sentences handed down to date.

Daniel Caldwell, a 51-year-old Marine Corps veteran, delivered a tearful apology in court to the officers he sprayed, expressing remorse for his actions that day and pleading with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for mercy.

But Kollar-Kotelly repeatedly described Caldwell as an “insurrectionist” and noted that his deployment of chemical spray at officers created such an intense cloud that it nearly broke the depleted police line by itself. Though no officers directly attributed their injuries that day to Caldwell’s actions, Kollar-Kotelly said his actions undoubtedly contributed to their physical and psychological trauma.

“You’re entitled to your political views but not to an insurrection," the judge said. “You were an insurrectionist.”

Caldwell has remained in pretrial custody since Feb. 10, 2021 — 721 days, he noted — and was one of the earliest charged with a direct assault on police that day.

But Caldwell’s hearing was most notable for the extensive expression of remorse, delivered almost entirely through tears, to a nearly empty courtroom.

“I must face my actions head on,” he said, before delivering a voluminous apology to the officers he attacked. “I hope that you and our country never have to face another day like January 6th.”

Caldwell said he spent the days immediately after the attack rationalizing what he did and looking for validation from family, friends and his attorney. He said he now looks back at his actions and “it literally floors me.”

He described himself as “ashamed” and “embarrassed” about his conduct and described efforts to better himself while in custody, reading self-help books and reflecting on how he became a catalyst of violence that day.

“I clearly let my emotions take control,” he said. “Being a Marine, I should have known better. … I wish I could take it back, but I can’t.”

As his sister, one of his daughters and her husband looked on, Caldwell lamented that he’d likely miss the birth of his first grandchild while incarcerated and was unable to repair a “broken relationship” with his biological mother, who passed away while he was in pretrial incarceration. He expressed regret that he’d miss his middle child’s military deployment and would be unable to be there for his aging father, who is battling cancer. His youngest son told family members that he felt like his “dad died,” Caldwell recalled. Caldwell’s wife, now the sole provider for the household, was struggling to get by.

“Knowing their pain is crushing my heart,” Caldwell said. “I have paid a high price, and I accept that I still have to pay more.”

Kollar-Kotelly said she appreciated his statement of apology to the officers, but as a Marine, he should have directed his apology to the whole country.

She described in detail his attack on officers, noting that one officer who he sprayed began to “vomit uncontrollably.” The air was so thick with chemicals that it wasn’t clear whether the officers he hit were injured by him directly or by a combination of factors. No victims delivered statements to the court ahead of sentencing.

Kollar-Kotelly also put his involvement in the broader Jan. 6 attack in the context of previous challenges to the United States government. She said it was crucial for her sentence to “fortify against the revolutionary fervor that you and others felt on Jan. 6 and may still feel today.”

“Insurrection is not,” she said, “and cannot ever be warranted.”

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LurkerNoMore:
Hahahaha this moron is at least being honest about his actions.  Not that it is going to help him. 


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Judge demands answers after Jan. 6 defendant recants guilt.

A Jan. 6 defendant’s boast in an interview this week that he had no regrets about his role in the Capitol riot — just days after he acknowledged his guilt in a federal courtroom — may upend the man’s efforts to resolve the criminal case against him.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta issued an order Friday instructing defendant Thomas Adams Jr. and prosecutors why the guilty findings the judge entered on Tuesday following a brief, “stipulated” bench trial should not be overturned in light of Adams’ comments to a reporter the following day.

"I wouldn't change anything I did," Adams told the State Journal-Register Wednesday outside his home in Springfield, Ill. "I didn't do anything. I still to this day, even though I had to admit guilt (in the stipulation), don't feel like I did what the charge is.”

In a brief order Friday morning, Mehta gave both sides one week to explain “why the court should not vacate Defendant's convictions of guilt in light of his post-stipulated trial statements” included in the article. The judge also attached a copy of the news report.

It is unclear how the article in the Illinois newspaper came to the attention of Mehta, who sits at the federal courthouse near the Capitol.

Judges handling Jan. 6 cases have been repeatedly and increasingly irked by defendants appearing to be apologetic and contrite in court, only to make public statements days later minimizing their guilt and sounding cavalier about their actions. And judges are loath to accept what effectively amounts to a guilty plea from any defendant who doesn’t sincerely believe in their own guilt.

Adams, who told the Illinois newspaper he was recently fired from his job as a lawn care worker, acknowledged under oath Tuesday that he had committed the conduct Mehta ultimately found him guilty of. He acknowledged walking over broken glass as he went inside the Capitol and that he told the FBI his intent was to “occupy” the building for days, if necessary. Adams also acknowledged that he “knew that he did not have authorization” when he went into the Senate chamber and walked among the senators’ historic desks.

Entering the Senate chamber has been a sort of red line for prosecutors, with them insisting on felony guilty pleas or convictions to resolve cases against those who went inside, even briefly.

And so far they’ve been nearly unblemished in their prosecutions, though a judge recently acquitted a defendant of an obstruction charge despite his presence in the chamber.

Adams was on the Senate floor for about seven minutes before he was kicked out of the building, according to the statement of facts prosecutors and the defense agreed to in his case.

Stipulated trials have been used in recent months to seek to resolve about a dozen Jan. 6-related criminal cases where the defendant faced a felony charge of obstruction of a congressional proceeding. Almost 1,000 people have been charged criminally in connection with the unrest at the Capitol, which prompted a delay in the congressional session to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

One of Mehta’s colleagues, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, ruled that the obstruction charge did not apply unless prosecutors could prove that a defendant intended to tamper with or damage the actual electoral vote documents being tallied that day.

No other judge to consider the issue has agreed with Nichols. Meanwhile, prosecutors are appealing his decision to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Unlike the guilty pleas typically offered in deals with prosecutors, stipulated trials allow defendants in other cases to preserve their ability to wipe out their obstruction convictions if the D.C. Circuit sides with Nichols. The obstruction charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence, although no Jan. 6 defendant has received a sentence close to that in a case not involving violence.

The harshest sentence to date — 10 years — was delivered by Mehta to retired New York City cop Thomas Webster, who took his case to trial. Webster was convicted of a brutal assault of a Washington Metropolitan Police officer outside the Capitol, and Mehta found that Webster lied on the stand about his actions.

Adams also admitted Tuesday to the facts needed to convict him on a misdemeanor charge of entering and remaining in the Capitol without permission. That carries a one-year maximum sentence. Mehta has set sentencing in the case for June 16.

The FBI appears to have zeroed in on Adams after he said on the day after the Capitol riot that he enjoyed the experience. “It was a really fun time,” Adams told Insider. He has since said he did not know of the violence taking place elsewhere in the building and on the Capitol grounds.
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LurkerNoMore:
"swept away by the mob" hahahaha.  Weak.  But what do you expect from an old fart like that.  8 months seems about right.

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Sewell man sentenced for his role in Capitol riot.

A Sewell man has received an eight-month prison term for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot.

Philip Young, 61, had sought house arrest for six months, while the prosecution wanted a 40-month prison term, court records show.

Young, a retired boilermaker, pleaded guilty in November to two felonies — interfering with officers during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers.

He also admitted guilt to five misdemeanor charges arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

According to court records, Young was among several rioters who pushed a bike-rack barricade into a line of police officers near the beginning of the riot.

He later deflated tires on a government vehicle, the records say.

Young was identified in part through his jacket, which carried the logo of a South Jersey-based boilermakers union, a criminal complaint says.

A public defender said Young, who was arrested in August, “got swept away by the mob” after attending a speech by Trump that preceded the riot.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich also rejected Young's request for a sentence that included two years of probation and 200 hours of community service.

The District of Columbia judge instead ordered Young to make restitution of $2,000 and, after his release from incarceration, to serve three years on supervised release.

Young admitted guilt to all charges without a plea agreement because he wanted a judge to set his sentencing guidelines, according to a filing by his attorney.

The prosecution had proposed a plea bargain with a sentencing range of 24 to 30 months in prison, the filing said.

Young is among some 15 people with South Jersey ties to be charged in connection with the Capitol breach. Six of the defendants have admitted guilt, with others awaiting trial.
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LurkerNoMore:
The conviction and dishonorable discharge that will be coming certainly will impact this idiot's future.  Support your "patriots".  Vote to raise McDonald wages to $20 per hour.  This might be the only job he can get for the rest of his life.

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Muncie Marine charged in Capitol riot ordered to remain in California.

A Marine from Muncie has been ordered to remain in California as he awaits court proceedings stemming from the riot — on Jan. 6, 2021 — at the U.S. Capitol.

Micah Coomer, 22, was one of three active-duty Marines charged Jan. 17 with participating in the uprising at the Capitol more than two years earlier.

The counts, filed in U.S. District Court in the nation's capital, are misdemeanors — knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

According to a "statement of facts" written by a special agent with the FBI, Coomer and his fellow Marines — Joshua Abate from Virginia and Dodge Dale Hellonen of Michigan — were determined to have entered the Capitol during the riot in part through photos Coomer posted on Instagram.

The Marines are alleged to have been in the building for 52 minutes, at one point placing a "Make American Great Again" hat on a statue and taking photos.

Coomer — an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems engineer — is assigned to Camp Pendleton in southern California. He was arrested Jan. 18 in nearby Oceanside, California.

He was later released on his own recognizance after a federal court hearing in California.

According to a "pre-trial release order," the Muncie Marine was ordered to remain in San Diego County, California, and to not enter nearby Mexico. The order noted Coomer at some point will be required to travel to the District of Columbia for related court hearings.

The release order also indicated Coomer "may possess firearms as authorized by (his) commanding officer for purposes of USMC duties."

Court records reflect no hearings have yet been scheduled in the case filed in the District of Columbia.

A San Diego attorney was appointed to serve as Coomer's public defender, and the Marine signed a document asserting his "rights to remain silent to have counsel present at any and all of my interactions with the government."

He enlisted in the Marines in September 2018, a few months after graduating from Delta High School.
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