Watkins' sentencing follows two lengthy prison terms handed down to Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and one of his chief lieutenants, Kelly Meggs. Rhodes received the longest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant to date at 18 years, while Meggs was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Last November, Watkins was found guilty of conspiring to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election and actual obstruction of that proceeding. Unlike Rhodes and Meggs, she was acquitted on the more serious charge of seditious conspiracy against the United States.
A former leading member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, Watkins was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for her role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Jessica Watkins led a small group into the Capitol building, but prosecutors said her actions enabled many more to ultimately disrupt the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
Struggling to express her remorse through her tears, Watkins apologized before the court.
"My actions and behaviors on that fateful day were wrong and -- as I now understand -- criminal," she said.
- VitaMan
- 07-18-2023, 07:56 AM
- SpeedRacerXXX
- 07-18-2023, 08:09 AM
And would any of them be in jail if not for Trump urging them to come to Washington D.C. on January 6th to protest the election results? And how many of them put the blame on Trump?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2A219E
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2A219E