A Texas militia member has received the longest sentence to date of any participant in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol: just over seven years in prison.
Guy Reffitt, 49, was the first Jan. 6 defendant to go before a jury and was convicted in March on five felony charges, including interfering with police during civil disorder, obstructing the tallying of the electoral votes and threatening his children if they reported him to authorities.
However, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich declined the Justice Department's request to treat Reffitt's crimes as terrorism, which would have substantially increased the recommended sentence under federal guidelines.
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