Chicago: A florida man who violated the US Senate room carrying the Trump campaign flag was scheduled to be the first January 6 riother who was sentenced to criminals, in a hearing that would help set benchmarks in similar cases.
The prosecutor wants Paul Allard Hodgkins to serve 18 months behind bars, say in submission recently that he is, “like every rioting, contributing to the collective threat to democracy” by forcing MPs for a while leaving their certification of election Joe Biden and scrambling.
To take refuge from the entry hordes.
Video recording shows Hodgkins, 38, wearing T-Shirt Trump 2020, the flag was thrown on the shoulder and his eyes on his neck in the Senate.
He took a selfie with a shaman described in the horn .
Helmets and other riwers in Dais behind him.
Monday his sentence in Washington can arrange a bar for the punishment of hundreds of other defendants because they decide whether to receive a request offer or go to court.
Hodgkins and other people are accused of serious crimes but are not charged, as others, for roles in a larger conspiracy.
Lawyers for Hodgkins, who pleaded guilty last month into a count of blocking the official process, asked the US district judge Randolph Mos S not to force a prison sentence, said the shame would stick to Hodgkins for the rest of his life must be taken into account.
“Any punishment that this court can be provided to be pale compared to the Scarlet letter Mr Hodgkins will be used for the rest of his life,” Patrick N Leduc wrote in the recent submission, quoted Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel where a woman accused of adultery was forced to wear letter “A.
” Archiving argues that Hodgkins’s actions are not much different from Anna Morgan Lloyd – besides Hodgkins stepping onto the Senate floor.
The 49-year-old child from Indiana was the first of around 500 which was arrested to be sentenced.
He pleaded guilty of unquested law violations and last month was sentenced to a three-year trial.
Hodgkins has never been accused of attacking anyone or damaging the property.
And the prosecutor said he was entitled to punishment to take responsibility immediately and pleaded guilty of the cargo of obstruction, which brought a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
But they also noted how he took a bus in his hometown of Tampa Bound for a rope trump drivers January 6, protective glasses and latex gloves in the backpack – said that he came to Washington to do violence.
On that day, he walked through the land that was scattered with destroyed police barriers and damaged windows, the night that passed the police officers and others were injured when the crowd jumped towards the Capitol, the prosecutor said.
“Many times, rather than turning and retreating, Hodgkins pressed forward,” said the government’s archiving.
Leduc described his client as an American who obeyed the law, even though he lived in a poorer Tampa, regularly submitted a tendency to a food bank.
He noted that Hodgkins had become eagle scouts.
His actions on January 6 “is the story of a man who only hours on one day losing the bearings …
which made decisions to follow the crowd,” said the lawyer.
Submission of 33-page Presentencing Leduc devotes several pages for civil war, highlighting Abraham Lincoln’s call for reconciliation of the week before his murder.
“The court has the opportunity to emulate Lincoln,” he wrote.
Men face the first punishment for crime in RIOT in US Capitol
