A Trump appointee disputes that Capitol breach cases are unique, stirring a debate over how to hold individuals accountable in mass crime.
at his confirmation hearings over what they asserted was unpunished far-left violence during racial justice protests at the federal courthouse in Portland, Ore.Garland said those who attack or damage federal buildings will be prosecuted, but drew a distinction between an attack on government property at night and the Capitol siege.While one or two other judges like McFadden have balked at sentencing Jan.
As it happens, McFadden on Friday sentenced another Jan. 6 defendant to 10 days in jail for a different misdemeanor offense — stealing government property in the form of microphones belonging to the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi He said the case of former U.S. Marine Corp member Robert Petrosh, of New Jersey, featured more aggravating factors.was narrowly directed at the sentencing of already convicted nonviolent Jan. 6 participants, not their prosecution.
McFadden, who has denounced the Capitol riots as “a national embarrassment,” said in sentencing Cudd that in context,Advertisement“Many people did very bad things on January 6th and I think they are paying for them and will pay for those actions,” McFadden said, but Cudd’s actions “fall at the very minimal end.”
Cudd celebrated property destruction, boasting on a Facebook live stream afterward, “We did break down … Nancy Pelosi’s office door!” and saying she was in a crowd that did “push, push” against police until officers gave way without violence to a Capitol entrance, prosecutors said.“Hell yes, I am proud of my actions,” Cudd continued on Facebook, draped in the Trump flag she’d worn inside the Rotunda and Statuary Hall, adding that said she “charged the Capitol today with patriots.
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