Capitol Rioter About To Lose Plea Deal After Apparently Lying To Prosecutors

A Capitol Rioter who reached a very lenient plea deal with prosecutors is likely to have that deal revoked after new evidence has proven that his claims to prosecutors were pure fabrications. The rioter claims that he was let inside the Capitol building by other rioters, but his own social media posts show him boasting about pushing his way inside through the doors. Farron Cousins explains what's happening and why prosecutors are failing at holding these people accountable.

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A capital rioter who reached an incredibly lenient plea deal with prosecutors last year, uh, might end up losing that incredibly lenient plea deal. Now that it has been revealed through this individual social media post that he likely lied to prosecutor. Now I'm not going to name the individual. It is of course, provided in the link in the description of this video. But here's what happened. This individual reached a plea deal with the prosecutors to basically plead guilty to one misdemeanor, count of demonstrating inside the capital. And he did this be because he told prosecutors according to reports, I was let into the building by the other protestors. I was not the, I didn't push my way in. I didn't do any of that. They opened the doors. I just walked in. Right. So, okay. Misdemeanor, you're demonstrating inside a federal building that you're not allowed to be in.

Sure. Probably would've carried maybe home confinement, most likely, um, probation and community service, but then prosecutors, I guess actually after they reached this plea deal decided, you know what? Maybe we ought to look at things for a second. And here's what they found him saying on Facebook feel like I took about 50 B rips of pepper spray today, post post victory picture after the ramming, through of the capital building and then a transcript of his cell phone recordings, which again, don't know why prosecutors didn't have this beforehand. He said, did they invite us in F no, they didn't. This is our house. We don't need permission.

And of course the video from the capital itself shows him in various different places, all throughout the building, not just being led in there by other rioters. So the sentencing has, of course been postponed in light of this new evidence and, and the plea deal may be revoked. In which case it likely would go to a full jury trial at that point. But here's the problem I have with all of this. Why didn't the prosecutors do their due diligence here? We know that there's what somewhere between like four and 700 more these cases that they have to deal with. So sure. Prosecutorial fatigue is setting in with these individuals. They're trying to get through 'em as quickly as possible. You know, these defendants do in fact have the right to a, you know, speedy trial. We can't hold this up for another five, six years.

We gotta get them processed as soon as possible. But that's why they're making some of these stupid ask plea deals like, okay, who are you? Yeah. All right, great. Uh, you're gonna plead guilty to a misdemeanor. You're not gonna go to jail. You sit at home for a couple weeks and you're good to go. Right? All right, fine. Good next. No, you have to look at what happened and honestly scrubbing through these people's Facebook pages through their Twitter feeds through their, you know, uh, uh, uh, parlors and whatever the getters and all those telegrams. Yeah. That's actually fairly easy. You should have done that from the beginning. This isn't information that should have come out AF you already reached a deal with these individuals, cuz you just wanted to turn and burn here. This is prosecutorial misconduct. I mean not rising to the level, obviously.

Okay. So we won't even call it misconduct, maybe prosecutorial negligence. How about that? I think that's a very accurate description of what is happening here and I get it again. You're tired. You got a long, long time to do these things. You know, years of your life are gonna be tied up prosecuting these cases. But that doesn't mean you get to slack and let some of these people off the hook when they're lying to your face, do your job. If somebody committed, you know, heinous crimes put 'em in jail, but make sure you do your due diligence first, make sure the bad guys are going away. And the people who really didn't do much wrong other than being in the building, they can get off lightly. But when you mix those two things up, it calls into question everything you have done up to this point.