The judge also castigated Tucker Carlson for airing misleading footage about the attack on the Capitol.
If Jacob Chansley was sentenced today, the judge said, he might be inclined to sentence him to a lengthier prison term than the 41 months he received. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP PhotoA federal judge has denied a bid by Jacob Chansley — the Jan. 6 rioter who famously wore a horned helmet and left a menacing note for Mike Pence on the Senate dais — to throw out his conviction by citing videos aired in February by then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“Without Mr. Chansley’s apparently unequivocal acceptance of responsibility, the Court is confident that he would have received a higher sentence,” Lamberth wrote. Chansley was one of the first prominent members of the mob arrested after Jan. 6 and was placed in pretrial detention. He was sentenced in November 2021 and was released earlier this year.
Lamberth used his opinion to confront Carlson directly, calling his depiction of the Jan. 6 footage “ill-advised.” Lamberth said the newly aired footage added no significant new details to Chansley’s case, virtually all of which were known to Chansley and his attorney prior to his sentencing. In fact, the one clip that prosecutors turned over after Chansley’s sentencing — a 10-second video of Chansley walking near the Senate chamber — had no “exculpatory” value, Lamberth wrote.
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