Cowboys for Trump founder (and NM election holdout) sentenced to 14 days for breaching Capitol groun

[Eugene]

Earlier DU threads:
• Screams, threats as New Mexico counties try to certify vote
• New Mexico county certifies election results, bowing to court order

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Source: Reuters

Cowboys for Trump founder sentenced to 14 days for breaching Capitol grounds

Sarah N. Lynch
Fri, June 17, 2022, 3:28 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican member of a governing commission in New Mexico who founded a group called "Cowboys for Trump" was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 14 days in jail over his role in breaching the U.S. Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

But the man, Couy Griffin, will get credit for the 20 days he already served in pretrial detention, and will not be required to report to prison, the judge said. He was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and serve 60 days of community service.

Griffin is one of three members of the Republican-led Otero County commission that is refusing to certify June's primary election results, citing unfounded conspiracy theories about voting machines.

Griffin was convicted in a bench trial in March of a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining on restricted grounds on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/cowboys-trump-founder-sentenced-14-192815869.html

[OnDoutside]

1. I believe the other two changed they vote, after the SOS threatened

Court action.

[Scrivener7]

2. Our Beerhall Putsch, ladies and gentlemen. Bullshit sentences that teach them

how to do it better the next time.

[HAB911]

3. This asshole will be like Bundy

until he goes to jail for real, he'll keep turning up like a bad penny

[BlueIdaho]

4. Does that come with a free t-shirt?

What an absurd sentence. They might as well hand him a t-shirt that says “I tried to destroy the constitution and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”

What BS.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. As On Doutside has noted,

the other two commissioners voted to certify the primary.

Here in New Mexico we have some very stupidly Republican counties.