Man who wanted to blow up Democratic HQ must have psych exam

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California must undergo a psychiatric examination, a judge said.

The court wants more information about the mental state of Ian Benjamin Rogers before he is sentenced, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles E. Breyer wrote in an order filed in San Francisco on Friday.

Prosecutors said Rogers and another man conspired to attack targets they associated with Democrats after former President Donald Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 presidential election, including the California governor’s mansion and buildings for social media companies Facebook and Twitter.

Breyer on Friday ordered sentencing documents turned over to a psychiatrist to “assess the defendant’s mental condition, recommend an appropriate course of treatment, if any, and assess the defendant’s dangerousness,” according to the order cited Monday by the Sacramento Bee.



FILE - This undated image provided by the Napa County, Calif., Sheriff's Office, shows Ian Benjamin Rogers. A judge has ordered a psychiatric examination for Rogers, who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party's headquarters and other buildings in Northern California. (Napa County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)


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[FakeNoose]

1. All that premeditated planning and conspiracy, he can't be THAT crazy

This guy knew what he was doing. Lock.Him.Up.

[Auggie]

4. +1

[Warpy]

5. He'll be locked up

even if they find he's so deep into that cult that he's lost the ability to know right from wrong, which is the legal definition that must be met. If he's found incapacitated, he'll be locked up and given heavy drugs. If he's found to be legally sane, he'll just be locked up.

Society will be partially served by getting him away from that peroxide bottle. Kid, that is NOT your color.

Snark aside, being criminally insane is a lot worse than being merely criminal. The sentences are usually a lot longer.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. He got a dynamite hair-do! /nt

[ffr]

3. Picture caption. Impressionable Fox News viewer

Thanks Fox News for dehumanizing democrats at every turn. You've lost the plot defending the vacuum of ideas that is the republican party and have to resort to personal attacks on democrats as your fallback plan.

FUCK YOU! I hope you get sued out of existence!

[Midnight Writer]

6. I'll save them some time. He's crazy and he's dangerous. But we can't let all the MAGAs go free.

[machoneman]

7. Bobert, Greene, Meadows and many other MAGATS need the same treatment!

[NBachers]

8. Looks like he's already had some electro-shock therapy.

[myohmy2]

9. is...

...Breyer a Republican appointee?

...isn't the goal and burning desire of every trump insurrectionist to blow up something Democratic?

...seems normal to me...