Capitol Rioter Who Walked On Senate Floor On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison

[livingston]

Capitol Rioter Who Walked On Senate Floor On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison

A Florida crane operator who walked onto the Senate floor during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to eight months in federal prison and two years of supervised release.

Paul Hodgkins' sentencing is the first in a felony case stemming from the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. It is viewed as a potential bellwether for how other Capitol defendants charged with similar offenses are likely to be treated.

Hodgkins pleaded guilty last month to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding. On Jan. 6, he marched from then-President Donald Trump's rally near the White House to the Capitol, where he walked inside and onto the floor of the Senate while carrying a red "Trump 2020" flag.


Moss noted that Hodgkins did not previously have a criminal record. He did not engage in violence on Jan. 6 or destroy property, and he was in the Capitol for less than 30 minutes. But his presence at the Capitol, Moss made clear, did contribute to the mob's ability to achieve its goal of disrupting the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Capitol Rioter Who Walked On Senate Floor On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison

Updated July 19, 2021 at 5:17 PM ET A Florida crane operator who walked onto the Senate floor during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been

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[livingston]

 

[FP1201]

Capitol Rioter Who Walked On Senate Floor On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison

A Florida crane operator who walked onto the Senate floor during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to eight months in federal prison and two years of supervised release.

Paul Hodgkins' sentencing is the first in a felony case stemming from the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. It is viewed as a potential bellwether for how other Capitol defendants charged with similar offenses are likely to be treated.

Hodgkins pleaded guilty last month to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding. On Jan. 6, he marched from then-President Donald Trump's rally near the White House to the Capitol, where he walked inside and onto the floor of the Senate while carrying a red "Trump 2020" flag.


Moss noted that Hodgkins did not previously have a criminal record. He did not engage in violence on Jan. 6 or destroy property, and he was in the Capitol for less than 30 minutes. But his presence at the Capitol, Moss made clear, did contribute to the mob's ability to achieve its goal of disrupting the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Capitol Rioter Who Walked On Senate Floor On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison

Updated July 19, 2021 at 5:17 PM ET A Florida crane operator who walked onto the Senate floor during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been

www.nhpr.org

The Left is still going to call it seditious, treasonous, violent, insurrection, another Pearl Harbor by Nazi's directed by the bad Orange man.

 

[tirwin1]

"deadly assault?"

Only because a cop shot ashli babbet. The rioters didn't kill anyone.

Compare this sentence to the revolving door out in Portland where antifa goons are arrested and released multiple times.

 

[SomeSoldier]

Banana Republic.

 

[GOPerfect]

Section 1505 of Title 18, United States Code, as amended by the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, forbids anyone from corruptly, or by threats of force or by any threatening communication, influencing, obstructing, or impeding any pending proceeding.

Wow, high crimes.

This is what he plead to. All that time and money for this.

Wow.

 

[meketrefe]

Well they should not have gone inside those federal government buildings like that. A stupid thing to do if you ask me.

Plus only rioters and looters get prizes and yellow ribbons.

 

[Bigfoot]

"deadly assault?"

Only because a cop shot ashli babbet. The rioters didn't kill anyone.

This bears repeating.

 

[CaseHardened]

How low can this formerly great country fall ?

Disgusting.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

How low can this formerly great country fall ?

Disgusting.

Literally, only to the ground. Theoretically it could fall backwards, but the science doesn't work for that, and it would have to fall quite a ways for it to be great again.

 

[Acer-m14]

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which regulate an establishment of religion, or that would prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

only one more to go ..

 

[Grimscale]

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which regulate an establishment of religion, or that would prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

only one more to go ..

Don't worry, Gab is helping to try to erase that last little bit.

 

[Jmac00]

Hodgkins pleaded guilty last month to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding.

uuum, NOT charged with Insurrection, NOT charged with sedition, NOT charged with Treason, NOT charged with murder, NOT charged with Breaking and entering, NOT charged with Destruction of Government Property.....................

so he got charged with the only thing the government could make stick??? My guess would be, he'll be out in 6 months for good behavior, but who knows.

But is it an insurrection, if no one is charged with insurrection?, Im surrprised they didn't charge him with Mutiny

 

[holdover]

They went there unarmed, killed no one, allowed into the building by police, took pictures, and after "'capturing"" the building, they all went home. Brutal. is there no end to this madness?

In contrast to the Marxist insurrection last summer, where they burned government buildings, forests, homes , killed over a dozen people including police officers, injured thousands, and cost the tax payers millions.


They tried to tweak this one a little to much

 

[Bigfoot]

uuum, NOT charged with Insurrection, NOT charged with sedition, NOT charged with Treason, NOT charged with murder, NOT charged with Breaking and entering, NOT charged with Destruction of Government Property.....................

so he got charged with the only thing the government could make stick??? My guess would be, he'll be out in 6 months for good behavior, but who knows.

But is it an insurrection, if no one is charged with insurrection?, Im surrprised they didn't charge him with Mutiny

I think unlike a State lockup. There is no time taken off of a sentence for good behavior or whatever when it comes to a Federal lockup.

It sometimes confuses me when I read the term "prison" when it comes to incarceration.
What I'm getting at is, around here if a sentence is less than 12 months. The person is held in a county jail. If the sentence is over 12 months the person is held in prison.

I don't know if it is a case of things being different in different places. Or a case of Federal convictions being different. Or if it's a case of journalism is dead and words no longer have meaning... IDK

 

[tirwin1]

I don't know if it is a case of things being different in different places. Or a case of Federal convictions being different. Or if it's a case of journalism is dead and words no longer have meaning... IDK

It's a case of the deep state looking to make an example of people it views as it's political enemies, despite the obvious disparity between the sentences of the Jan 6 rioters and all the other rioters from the summer of 2020.