A federal judge in Washington has upheld an obstruction conviction against a Virginia man who stood trial with members of the Oath Keepers extremist group in one of the most serious cases brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a defense effort to throw out the Washington jury's guilty verdict against Thomas Caldwell, a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer who was convicted last November in the U.S. Capitol attack alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
The judge said that while Caldwell didn't enter the Capitol, evidence supports the argument that he aided extremists who stormed the building. The judge pointed to Caldwell's own words, including a message from the evening of Jan. 6 in which he wrote: “So I grabbed up my American flag and said let's take the damn capitol ... I said lets storm the place and hang the traitors.”
Caldwell was initially charged with seditious conspiracy along with Rhodes and other far-right extremists, and he was described by the Justice Department as a key figure in what prosecutors said wasBut jurors cleared Caldwell of the sedition charge and two other conspiracy charges after a monthslong trial.after jurors convicted him of seditious conspiracy and other serious charges.
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