The government suggested on Wednesday that the defense attorney’s characterization of the defendant’s activities might be a lie.
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Reeder’s conduct was individual and significantly and substantially different from many others in the “crowd.” He did not engage in “forced entry,” did not participate in “breaking windows and assaulting members of law enforcement” and was not one who “encouraged and assisted those acts to gain entry into the US Capitol.” Those individuals’ actions included breaking windows and assaulting members of law enforcement as others in the crowd encouraged and assisted those acts to gain entry into the US Capitol.
Reeder objects to his being included in a crowd that is described as “a large crowd of individuals who gathered outside the US Capitol and ultimately forced entry inside the building. The maximum possible sentence for the admitted crime is a six-month sentence and a $5,000 fine, the government noted in a plea agreement.Īs is customary in sentencing hearings, considerable jockeying occurred about whether the correct punishment was probation or the government’s recommendation of two months in jail. He pleaded guilty to one of those counts - count four - and was due to be sentenced Wednesday.His attorney asked for probation only the government asked for a two-month sentence. Capitol and joining the “initially festive” events which by then were transpiring.Īs Law&Crime previously noted, Reeder was charged with four counts loosely summarized as follows: (1) knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do (2) disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business by engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct (3) uttering loud, threatening, or abusive language with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb Congress and (4) parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any of the Capitol Buildings. After listening to the oratory on the Ellipse, he says he visited various area monuments before arriving at the U.S. Reeder, who has described himself as a “registered Democrat” of limited political passions, said he was watching television coverage of a pro-Trump crowd which had gathered for a speeches on the Ellipse when he made a spur-of-the-moment decision to hop a train into Washington, D.C., to join the event. Robert Maurice Reeder, 55, of Maryland, cast himself as something of a tourist who happened to stumble across the goings-on in and around the capitol on Jan. An evidence photo shows Robert Maurice Reeder in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021.Ī Wednesday afternoon sentencing hearing kicked off 15 minutes late and came to an abrupt halt after federal prosecutors revealed they suddenly obtained new evidence against the man who was about to learn his fate in connection with the Jan.
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