Capitol rioter Guy Wesley Reffitt has received the most severe sentence yet for his role in the January 6th riots at the Capitol.
Texas militia member Guy Wesley Reffitt has been sentenced to over seven years in prison for his role in the January 6th riots at the Capitol.WASHINGTON – A Texas militia member was sentenced to slightly more than seven years in prison Monday, the most severe punishment issued in a case related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
"I really do hate what I did," he told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich."My mouth is my biggest enemy." Friedrich earlier denied the government's request for an enhanced sentence, casting Reffitt's crimes as acts of domestic terrorism. Friedrich said such a punishment had not been sought in other Capitol riot cases. Defense attorney Clinton Broden said the government's request"makes a mockery of the criminal justice system."
In the case against Reffitt, a member of the paramilitary Three Percenters, prosecutors drew on reels of surveillance video, testimony from Capitol Police officers, a fellow militia member and the defendant's estranged son to portray a rioter described as the"tip of this mob's spear." Reffitt's son told prosecutors that his father warned against reporting his actions to authorities, saying"traitors get shot.
Reffitt's attorney, William Welch, told jurors that his client was merely prone to hyperbole, suggesting that his involvement was more talk than action.
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