A federal judge on Thursday denied a bid from Jacob Chansley to withdraw his guilty plea to obstructing Congress on Jan. 6 and rebuked the so-called “QAnon Shaman” for going on a Tucker Carlson program that gave a distorted view of the riot.
, denied Chansley’s bid while laying out in detail why the claim that he and other rioters were allowed in and around the Capitol by police are false.All but 10 seconds of the video Carlson showed was produced to Chansley before his sentencing, Lamberth said, and the surveillance video Chansley now claims undermines his conviction is duplicative of police body-camera footage he was given months before he decided to plead guilty.
“These videos are decidedly not exculpatory,” Lamberth wrote. “Such footage, conveniently omitted by the [Fox News] program, shows nearly all of Mr.
Lamberth said that if Chansley had gone to trial or fought conditions of the plea, as he now says he should have, he would have still been convicted and faced a higher sentence for not accepting responsibility. He said he was “disappointed” that Chansley had disavowed the remorse that had impressed the judge at sentencing.“Such an about-face casts serious doubt on the veracity of any of Mr. Chansley’ s claims, here or elsewhere,” Lamberth wrote.
“The host explicitly questioned the integrity of this Court — not to mention the legitimacy of the entire U.S. criminal justice system — with inflammatory characterizations of cherry-picked videos stripped of their proper context,” he wrote, “language resembling the destructive, misguided rhetoric that fueled the events of January 6 in the first place.”The judge suggested that “members of the public who are concerned about the evidence presented in Mr.
“Those of us who have presided over dozens of cases arising from, listened to hundreds of hours of testimony describing, and reviewed thousands of pages of briefing about the attack on our democracy of January 6 know all too well that neither the events of that day nor any particular defendant’s involvement can be fully captured in a seconds-long video carelessly, or perhaps even cynically, aired in a television segment or attached to a tweet,” he wrote.
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