Judge: People Charged in January 6 Capitol Riot Being Treated ‘Tougher’ than Other ProtestersPenny Starr 13 Jun 2022
The prosecution of people charged in taking part in the January 6 Capitol riots continues, with hundreds offering pleas or awaiting trial. But one judge who is hearing cases is speaking out about the way these suspects are being treated in court.
The Associated Press (AP) reported on the development:
[Judge Trevor] McFadden, whom President Donald Trump nominated in 2017, has criticized prosecutors’ handling of Capitol riot cases. He suggested that the Justice Department has been unjustly tougher on Capitol riot defendants compared with people arrested at protests against police brutality and racial injustice after George Floyd’s 2020 murder by a Minneapolis police officer.
McFadden also has criticized prosecutors for seeking jail time for some nonviolent Capitol riot defendants but not for left-wing activists who protested Trump’s nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, The Washington Post reported.
The AP was referring to its reporting in 2021 when McFadden spoke at the hearing of another January 6 defendant:
U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden questioned why federal prosecutors had not brought more cases against those accused in 2020 summertime protests, reading out statistics on riot cases in the nation’s capital that were not prosecuted.
“I think the U.S. attorney would have more credibility if it was even-handed in its concern about riots and mobs in this city,” McFadden said during Danielle Doyle’s sentencing for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 with a throng of other rioters. Prosecutors recommended two months of home confinement for Doyle, who is from Oklahoma.
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