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USA, the man with the shoes on Pelosi's desk on Capitol Hill risks 20 years in prison

2023-01-25 19:44:41Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
USA, the man with the shoes on Pelosi's desk on Capitol Hill risks 20 years
Richard Barnett

Two years ago, the attack on Congress in Washington shocked America. After the fear of a coup had passed, a hypothesis not even considered in all of American history, the pain for the five victims of that crazy day and the humiliation before the world remained.

Equally humiliating are the images of one of the protagonists of that crazy January 6, 2021 on Capitol Hill: Richard Barnett, an ultra-Trumpist from Arkansas, who had portrayed himself sitting in the chair of then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with his feet on the table.

Outraged America demanded exemplary punishments. But now those punishments have come. And they seem to most to be very heavy. Hundreds of Americans entered Congress that day and were identified by justice thanks to the videos they themselves posted on the network, tried and now the sentences are coming.

Judges, who have broad discretion in sentencing once a guilty plea has been imposed, have chosen the "exemplary sentence" line from the start.

And so, the crime cost the fur-clad shaman with a horned head a 41-month prison sentence.

Now it's up to Barnett, the man who walked into the House Speaker's office. A Washington District Court jury found him guilty of all eight charges brought against him by federal prosecutors.

Sentencing will be determined on May 3, but the court has already announced that Barnett faces up to 20 years in prison under the new sentence.

Practically a life sentence for a glass worker from a rural Arkansas, who is 62 years old.

Stunned, his lawyer asks for mercy, which will not be forthcoming: the case has gone too far and the desire for exemplary punishments is too strong.

And now, the lawyer asks himself and Americans, if it is acceptable that for a serious but non-violent act, this man - whom he himself describes as a "red-neck" - is deprived of his right to enjoying the rest of his remaining life in freedom, as he is now over sixty.


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