Daniel Barnes reports for NBC News, based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — A former Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol because he believed former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election had more than a year shaved off his prison sentence on Wednesday in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling on an obstruction charge that has been used against hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants. Thomas Robertson was re-sentenced to six years, or 72 months, in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper.
Unlike most other defendants, Robertson was also convicted of a separate obstruction charge because he destroyed evidence after the attack, with Fracker testifying that he saw Robertson place their phones into an ammo can. Robertson wrote, in evidence cited by the government, that the phones 'took a lake swim' and 'had a tragic boating accident' before the duo surrendered to federal authorities.
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