A Delaware man who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, along with his Accomplice flag-toting father was sentenced Monday to 2 years behind bars.
Hunter Seefried, 24, was convicted alongside his father, Kevin, of felony and misdemeanor fees by U.S. District Decide Trevor McFadden in June. The Seefrieds opted for a bench trial, which is set by a decide, fairly than have their case heard by a jury.
The daddy and son traveled to Washington from their residence in Laurel, Del., to listen to then-President Trump’s speech on the “Cease the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. They have been among the many first rioters to strategy the U.S. Capitol constructing close to the Senate Wing Door, in accordance with prosecutors.
After watching different rioters use a police defend and a picket plank to interrupt a window, Hunter Seefried used a gloved fist to clear a big shard of glass in one of many damaged windowpanes, prosecutors stated. The decide discovered that two different rioters had destroyed the window earlier than Seefried cleared the piece of glass.
Extensively printed images confirmed Kevin Seefried carrying a Accomplice battle flag contained in the Capitol after he and Hunter, then 22, entered the constructing by way of a damaged window.
An lawyer for Hunter Seefried had requested for probation and residential detention as a substitute of jail time. He stated in court docket papers that his consumer went to the Capitol that day solely as a result of his father pushed him to affix. And the lawyer famous that Hunter Seefried by no means harm or threatened anybody on the Capitol.
“Hunter is a good, hardworking and caring younger man, who was misled and received caught up within the unlucky occasions of January 6, 2021,” lawyer Edson Bostic stated in an electronic mail. “He's very remorseful and wished he might relive and alter his conduct that day.”
Kevin Seefried is scheduled to be sentenced in January.
Each males have been convicted of obstruction of an official continuing, the joint session of Congress for certifying the electoral faculty vote that day.
The decide additionally convicted the Seefrieds of misdemeanor fees of participating in disorderly conduct and illegally demonstrating contained in the constructing. However he acquitted Hunter Seefried of different misdemeanor fees.
The Seefrieds are amongst about 900 individuals who have been charged with federal crimes associated to the Jan. 6 assault. Greater than 420 of them have pleaded responsible, principally to misdemeanor offenses.
Roughly 300 Capitol riot defendants have been sentenced, with sentences starting from probation to 10 years behind bars.
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