By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Prosecutors asked a federal judge Friday to sentence Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison — the government’s first sentencing request for a person convicted of seditious conspiracy related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
The Justice Department is seeking 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday.
A Washington, D.C., jury convicted Stewart Rhodes in November in 1 of the most consequential cases brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The Justice Department is seeking 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, according to court papers filed Friday.
The sentencing recommendations come a day after jurors in a different case also convicted four leaders of the Proud Boys of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, say he doesn’t deserve any more time behind bars when he’s sentenced this month, according to court papers filed Monday.
The defense filing came after a Friday evening memo by prosecutors asking a federal judge to sentence Rhodes to 25 years in prison and eight followers to at least 10 years behind bars, in the first punishments to be handed down to defendants convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Capitol riot.
Prosecutors said Rhodes “used his talents for manipulation to goad more than twenty other American citizens into using force, intimidation, and violence" on Jan. 6.
Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, say he doesn’t deserve any more time behind bars when he’s sentenced this month.
