Posted on 09/05/2023 10:12:25 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
For one of the biggest moments of his life, Eric Bochene wore a faded white t-shirt and sat in an empty, green-walled conference room, straining to hear the volume from the computer. He grimaced as the virtual conference technology glitched. And he frequently voiced his frustration with his situation.
Bochene pleaded guilty in late August to a federal criminal charge for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack. But he didn't stand in a courtroom. His lawyer wasn't standing next to Bochene. Instead the attorney was on a separate virtual conference connection. And Bochene wasn't permitted to choose his own outfit.
Though he was pleading guilty to only a misdemeanor charge, Bochene was required to appear remotely for his hearing from a holding room in the Broome County jail in Binghamton, NY. He wore his jail outfit, sitting beneath fluorescent lights, because Bochene isn't a typical Jan. 6 defendant.
Bochene is one of a growing number of U.S. Capitol riot defendants who absconded and became fugitives after their arrests or initial court appearances.
The prosecution related to the Jan. 6, 2021 siege is the largest in American history, with approximately 1,100 criminal defendants from nearly every state. Though more than 600 of those defendants have pleaded guilty and dozens more have gone to trial, at least six became – or were — fugitives over the course of this summer. Some are still wanted by the FBI. Eric Bochene was one of them.
Bochene was charged with four federal counts and was accused of throwing a large item at a Capitol window, then moving amid the mob into the Capitol during the siege. After his arrest in May 2021, Bochene chose to represent himself in court.
He was defiant during some hearings, invoking language consistent with the sovereign citizen movement.
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It’s time to defund the American haters. The FIBBIES have got to go. Bastards.
But BLM and Antifa rioters who burned American cities and businesses to the ground don’t get thrown in jail, in fact they get money as retribution welcome to the new Communist America
And just for fun, how large is the prosecution for the 2020 St. Floyd of Fentanyl/Burn-Loot-Murder riots?
Welcome to 1984.
Gee, if only we had representation in DC. America has failed, what follows I do not recognize.
I would like to know how many Antifa/BLM rioters were arrested for burning two Post Offices, including several PO vehicles in Minneapolis during the 2020 riots. I suspect that the number is ZERO. I do recall one or two rioters were convicted of burning the Police Station, but they got a lot less time than some of the J6 political prisoners.
More than 12?
How many have been ID'd or arrested or prosecuted?
ONE!!!!
The other eleven or more are FBI stooges (Antifa) and will never be held to account.
J8 fugitives = American patriots.
Can’t have any patriots when the democrats are busy dismantling the country.
The bastards in the Dung Beetle Party should be forced to pay for all these phony “trials.”
roll that welcome mat out for the Chinese military people coming through the southern border.
What a freaking waste of time and money. The country is quite literally falling apart and they are looking to jail some tourists. No unsolved murders out there? Drug kingpins? Sex slavery?
Voting has got us here.
Your courts will re-establish that potential members of the semi-skilled and unskilled labor pool can’t be killed before their born, but are on the side of the shoplifters and looters.
What is our recourse? (That’s a rhetorical question sir. No one on this site will ever state the cold blooded truth and it is probably against the community standards.)
This government and the leftist agencies that are assisting Democrats in prolonging the election win lie need to pay dearly for their crimes.
Apparently no but there’s a $50,000 reward out: https://www.uspis.gov/news/wanted/minneapolis-mn-arson-of-minneapolis-post-offices
They’ll never catch me.
Les Misérables in the USA
It’s time.. It’s past time to call it what it is. The frogs are being cooked and we haven’t flinched.
We have at the seat in Washington, a communist regime. Look at the signs!
Protestors are being jailed.
Speech is being monitored
People are not free to live life in a fashion of the United States of America
Billions $$ sent to foreign nations
Border wide open inviting world globalists
Government weaponized against citizens
America is not first in priority
Conservatism being attacked
Deep state in high gear to rid gov of any rebellion
For starters!!
It seems that if one was anywhere in WDC on the afternoon of J6 and you were not an employee of the FedGov, you are considered to be an insurrectionist and are subject to a fine (at least), incarceration (acceptable) or possibly death (preferred). The left prefers the latter of course.
To wit: a 70+ man and his wife were arrested and put in the system despite a video showing that the couple were merely sitting on a bench watching the events unfold. I haven’t heard anything about their fate.
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