Jury to begin deliberating in 1st trial over Capitol riot

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON -- An armed Texas militia member led a “vigilante mob” that overwhelmed police officers and became the first group of rioters to breach the U.S. Capitol last year, a federal prosecutor said Monday at the close of the first criminal trial over the riot.

A 12-member jury is scheduled to begin deliberating on Tuesday for Guy Wesley Reffitt's trial on charges that he stormed the Capitol with a holstered handgun strapped to his waist and interfered with police officers guarding the Senate doors. He also is charged with threatening his teenage children if they reported him to law enforcement after the attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower told jurors that Reffitt drove to Washington, D.C., intending to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's electoral victory, to “overthrow Congress” and to drag lawmakers out of the building. Reffitt proudly “lit the fire" that allowed others in the mob to overwhelm Capitol police officers, the prosecutor said during the trial's closing arguments.

“They were in an impossible situation — outnumbered and, they feared, outgunned,” Berkower said of police.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article259146348.html

[Tomconroy]

1. Shouldn't be out long.

[MichMan]

2. Twenty to forty years ?

[OLDMDDEM]

3. Let's hope so. nt.

[fightforfreedom]

4. I hope he dies in prison.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. I've been following this pretty closely when I can

and as far as I can see, he's toast, the prosecution brought a rock solid case, the defense really had no defense, they didn't call any witnesses for Reffitt, he never took the stand in his own defense, which of course is his right, but it speaks volumes.

I expect the jury won't be out very long and I hope that this traitor gets the max.