Posted on 03/08/2022 7:57:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Guy Reffitt, the first man to stand trial for his involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, has been found guilty on all counts.
A jury in the District of Columbia deliberated for roughly three hours before finding Reffitt guilty on five charges—including one controversial count of obstruction of an official proceeding, a charge dismissed by a federal judge yesterday in a separate January 6 case—raising concerns that January 6 defendants will not find an impartial jury in a city that voted nearly 94 percent for Joe Biden. He was represented by a court-appointed attorney.
Reffitt did not enter the Capitol building on January 6; five months after his initial indictment, the Justice Department indicted Reffitt for bringing a firearm to the grounds of the Capitol based on photographs obtained by the government. Reffitt’s son, Jackson, who opposes his father’s political views, recorded conversations between the family after January 6 and turned the recordings over to the FBI; Jackson testified for the prosecution at trial.
A juror afterwards told a CBS News reporter that the case was “simple” and there was “not a dissenting voice in the jury room.”
Reffitt has been incarcerated since his arrest in January 2021, denied release twice by U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee. Friedrich also denied Reffitt’s motion for change of venue. Two surveys conducted by defense teams earlier this year revealed extreme bias in the prospective jury pool; one poll showed that 74 percent of D.C. residents believe anyone who participated in the events of January 6 should be convicted of “insurrection” and 64 percent believe even nonviolent protesters should be held criminally responsible for what happened that day.
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extreme bias in the prospective jury pool; one poll showed that 74 percent of D.C. residents believe anyone who participated in the events of January 6 should be convicted of “insurrection” and 64 percent believe even nonviolent protesters should be held criminally responsible for what happened that day.
***America has a political mental illness.
Banana republic.
Damned traitor.
How was that admissible? Wasn’t this recorded without consent?
Oh, but that doesn’t matter when it comes to conservatives.
In Texas only one of the parties has to consent to recording.
Regardless of the merit of this case - no political trials should be held in DC.
The Democrats always get the pass there, the Republicans, never.
If Trump gets back in then he will pardon most of them. That is their only chance with things being so corrupt.
A DC jury. That is where Trump got 5 % of the vote. Wherever happened to a jury of your peers?
That’s what caught me too.
The people in DC now think they are the Imperial Court. They actually believe that the rest of us are beneath them.
DC has become exactly what the Founders attempted to avoid: a ruling city-state, a la Rome, that sets itself above all. There is no industry in that city save government, and the people who work in the government appear to believe themselves some sort of political nobility.
So of course they convict all Commoners who dare to transgress the Sacred Sanctum, their private property. How dare we!
It’s time to carve the place up, give it back to the surrounding states, leave the Capitol, White House and Supreme Court as the runt District and let Bowser and her buddies go back to being ignominious denizens of Maryland and Virginia. Agencies can be broken up and parcelled out to all the States so that direct federal contact can be made when necessary.
Need I mention demographic of said district?
There are some gov-teat workers but mostly it’s the usual suspects. Who have the usual proclivities including judgementalism, and viciousness.
Swamp weasel jury. The poor guy didn’t stand a chance. The justicee system in this craphole country really sucks if you’re and American. Tyrants in black robes with braindead jurors.
All rat jury in front of a rat judge. Zero chance.
Well that went Biblical quick..
Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
He didn’t even enter the Capitol, FFS! But all those women who actually shut down the Kavanaugh hearings were arrested and then released a couple of hours later! 🤬
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This mutt, Guy Reffitt, was convicted of being a stupid nut, a jerk and carrying a firearm on the steps of the US Capitol.
He was a stupid nut for posting inflammatory rants against the crooked Democrat operatives who massaged the 2020 vote count. He was a jerk to his kids to the point his son recorded his rants and told the feds and the Capitol is a no gun zone, unless you are a cop.
The jury should have dumped all the charges except the gun charge which only would have been a couple of years in jail.
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Probably won’t be any more friendly Thanksgiving dinners at that house. Other than that, my comment deleted too. If Trump isn’t chested out another election, I wonder how many pardons he will issue?
I hope that son comes to a point in time, where he realizes
how badly his father and many others have been viciously
railroaded.
You look at some many other places in the nation where blocks
of cities were literally destroyed with no push back at all.
Now this.
Well, that’s how it works in socialist nations.
Is the chump a tranny?
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