Posted on 09/08/2023 6:31:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Nashville man called “Zip Tie Guy” was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison for his role in the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol.
Eric Munchel, 32, was found guilty of five felonies and three misdemeanors earlier this year, alongside his mother Lisa Eisenhart, 59, who was also sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison.
Eisenhart was found guilty of two felonies and five misdemeanors, including conspiracy to commit obstruction.
Prosecutors initially requested Munchel be sentenced to four years and nine months in prison along with three years of supervised release. They said his mother should have been sentenced to three years and 10 months incarceration with three years supervised release.
Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science Dr. Edward Rubin explained one thought the judges might have weighed in their sentencing.
“This was planned activity,” said Dr. Rubin. “Everybody in Nashville knows what’s involved in traveling from Nashville to Washington, D.C., you don’t just do that casually. And it was planned and coordinated, coming from superior forces of various kinds, and instructing them what to do and what they did. And this is also important, has tried to intervene in one of those ceremonial events of democracy.”
This week a federal judge sentenced former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years in prison for the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Despite the fact that Tarrio wasn’t present in Washington the day of the attack, prosecutors said he used his influence over hundreds of followers to orchestrate an assault on democracy.
Court Document: 15 firearms, tactical gear found in home of ‘Zip Tie Guy’ Prosecutors stated in court documents that this was a “a violent attack that forced an interruption of the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote count, threatened the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 Presidential election, injured more than one hundred police officers, and resulted in more than $2.9 million in losses.”
Munchel was a 32 year-old then-bartender from the Nashville area. His mother was a 59-year-old nurse from Woodstock, Georgia, which is a suburb of Atlanta.
According to their defense, the riot has been cast as a threat to democracy and other descriptions they call fearmongering.
“To speak of those events in this manner particularly when discussing an individual defendant is unjust and misleading,” stated Munchel’s defense attorney, Joseph W. Allen, in the sentencing memorandum. “From 1776 to the present, Americans have always undertaken to voice their freedom of self-rule in a boisterous manner.”
Dr. Rubin explained why other legal experts feel differently.
“The revolution of 1776 was an effort to oppose oppression by a foreign power. What happened on January 6 was an effort to impose oppression by violence against the U.S. government,” said Dr. Rubin. “Those are two very different uses of violence. And I don’t even think the second one marriage the term revolution, certainly not as we use it in our history books.”
Prior to the sentencing, Munchel’s attorney said he’s remorseful and has accepted responsibility for his actions at the capitol and should therefore be sentenced to a year incarceration. The sentencing took place around midday Friday in federal court.
There were no deaths of any officer or members of congress or their staffs. One ahole cop shot a protestor to death.
A full pardon should be issued when Trump takes office.
And another protester, Rosanne Boyland, was probably clubbed to death by another cop, and two other senior citizens might have been collateral damage due to the indiscriminate launching of tear gas grenades by other cops (resulting in their heart attacks).
And this doesn't include 4 other J6 citizens who committed suicide due to the pressure from the Washington DC KGB (and their supporting lackey judges and kangaroo court juries).
“...deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol....”
The only thing deadly about these riots is when an armed gummit employee murdered an UNarmed citizen. And that murdering bastard got a pay raise and a promotion recently when he ought to die in prison for murder. And oh, the MSM along with the worthless GOPe is the reason this country is such a mess.
Why hasn’t any of these cases been to the Supreme Court?
Two-tiered justice system. Targeted prosecutions. Corrupt judges. Political prisoners. Murder of an unarmed protester.
Meanwhile, the Republican Speaker of the House refuses to release the J6 tapes.
I thought the tapes had been released to Tucker Carlson?
BS, I made that tri several times, because Nashville is a fun place to visit. They were usually spur of the moment decisions too.
“Two-tiered justice system. Targeted prosecutions. Corrupt judges. Political prisoners.”
Yet on every thread here and elsewhere, I see wailing for lawsuits and appeals to this court or that. The courts are as corrupt as anything else.
No problem...
Our communist masters are on an unstoppable roll, and they know it... There is no reason for them to take their foot off our throats...
Americans have their car, tv, and government handouts... Why should anyone expect them to complain or resist this dark tyranny...
Ronald Reagan warned us of the future consequences of complacency...
It is now too late to throw off these chains...
We need to keep a list of these judges and prosecutors. I see terminations and I,peachments in their near future.
Sadly, you’re right.
“conspiracy to commit obstruction” sounds so serious
I think the federal government will ultimately pay out millions of tax dollars in settlements to these people whose constitutional rights they have no doubt violated.
All or nearly all these sentences will be over-turned for various legal reasons and the lawsuits will fly. One similar example of government prosecutions and courts gone crazy is Waco. I think all 160 odd defendants in the Waco cases were paid millions or have lawsuits pending. I don’t believe one person was convicted.
Roses boyland was beaten to death by a cop
These people will have to face a higher judge one day.
I do that every morning.
...the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol.
No bias there, nope.
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