Posted on 03/10/2022 4:40:06 PM PST by oblomov
When Guy Reffitt became the first person to stand trial for storming the US Capitol, he had to face not only a judge and jury, but his own son on the witness stand.
Those who know Reffitt say he is a big talker. So much so that his defence lawyer used it as his main argument for dismissing the case against Reffitt, who stood trial for bringing a handgun to the US Capitol during the 6 January riot.
But it was the volume of evidence of this bragging - detailed in texts, videos and audio - that convinced jurors of his guilt in a unanimous verdict on Tuesday after less than four hours of deliberations.
The guilty verdict, delivered quickly and on all counts, is a huge victory for the government and is expected to affect the upcoming trials and defence strategy of other defendants indicted by the justice department.
But Reffitt's trial has also shown how fissures dividing Americans have cracked wide open. It revealed how the deep political divide in the US has affected ordinary Americans and their families, often in a way that is emotionally wrenching and deeply personal. The divide has reached beyond the dinner table to pit family members against one another - in this case father against son - with far-reaching consequences.
For it was Reffitt's son's testimony against his father - whose political views he had long opposed - that formed a crucial part of the prosecution's case.
Weeks before Guy Reffitt drove from his hometown of Wylie, Texas, to Washington DC to storm the US Capitol, his son Jackson, 18 at the time, had already tipped-off the FBI.
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You’re right, but I didn’t get the impression from this article that the son didn’t need any encouragement from anyone to call the FBI.
that the son needed any encouragement...
Little Jackson was poisoned by government education long before his father ever thought about it.
I thought they said there were no guns. Did he have the gun on him?
He said he did.
He said he didn't.
He was not arrest at the time so no proof either way.
Sniveling punk. You don’t fink on your family to the Feds for something like this.
Such a ‘family’ may be best ‘torn apart’.
Per the article, little Pavlik Morozov moved out of the family home and is living off Go Fund Me handouts. It’s the son who deserves 60 years in prison.
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Absolutely...very bad judgement, and very different than those who are being persecuted for walking in after BEING WELCOMED BY CAPITOL POLICE.
More than bad judgment, dads a dangerous nut. But that doesn’t exonerate the son. Typical lib, who gets a big self-righteousness star. If he felt so badly about dads fate there wouldnt be the need to preen on social media.I wish I could adopt
Him… so I could force him to get a haircut. He looks like a hobo
The dad will get the book thrown at him and die in prison, while murderers go free in 7 to 10 years.
Agreed! Having done some reading on East Germany I learned some very,very disgusting things. While examining East German government files after the fall of the Berlin Wall it was discovered that about 1 in 8 East German citizens were Stasi informants.Husbands informed on wives and children informed on parents.But the thing that stunned me the most was that parents informed on their children
Pavel Trofimovich Morozov Is the sons idol
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