Posted on 04/01/2022 4:06:28 PM PDT by Coronal
A Tennessee man, who prosecutors say was one of the first 15 people to breach the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to three years of probation on Wednesday, including 60 days of house arrest for his role in the insurrection.
Bruce Wayne Ivey, 28, pleaded guilty in June to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol. He initially faced four charges, including entering and remaining in a Capitol building and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol building. But as the government works to prosecute the 800 people arrested in connection to the attack, federal prosecutors have offered nonviolent rioters the lesser charge in exchange for their guilty pleas.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced Ivey to serve 60 days of home detention, included in a three-year probationary sentence, and to pay $500 in restitution. The judge also ordered Ivey to agree to regular drug testing and mental-health treatment, said WUSA, which was the first to report the results of the sentencing hearing.
Prosecutors had previously requested that Ivey spend 14 days in jail on top of the probationary sentencing, but Cooper declined to issue a split sentence. But the federal government did argue that Ivey should get credit for being one of the first Capitol-riot defendants to plead guilty and praised him for seeking mental-health treatment soon after the siege, WUSA reported.
Prosecutors said surveillance footage from the Capitol on January 6 captured Ivey standing next to the Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola, who was caught on camera using a stolen police riot shield to smash a window. Charging documents said Ivey then climbed through the broken window and into the building. Prosecutors said Ivey was the 14th rioter to enter the Capitol that day.
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His belief is 100% correct.
I guess he is not allowed to believe whatever he wants to believe under penalty of the law. I find this disturbing.
There is a difference between being allowed to believe what you want and being given a lighter sentence because you believe it. If I were pulled over for speeding because I genuinely believed my car could fly at a great enough speed, I would still get a ticket and points on my license.
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For you to watch and listen..
That would be wasteful.
I've got CASES of the stuff, been selling it down at the school.
Little buggers think it's dope. I'm BANKING.
He was right.
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