Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean and Zachary Rehl were all convicted of seditious conspiracy in May following a months-long trial that began in January.
, was acquitted of the seditious conspiracy charge, but found guilty of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. Pezzola smashed a Capitol window with a stolen police shield, leading the first breach of the building.
Prosecutors are seeking 33 years in federal prison for Tarrio and Biggs, 30 years for Rehl, 27 years for Nordean, and 20 years for Pezzola. Sentencing hearings are set for the week of Aug. 28, which is also when a federal judge in D.C. will set the trial date forProsecutors said that the Proud Boys were guilty of crimes of terrorism, and that it was important that the sentences they receive"be noted by those who would foment such political violence in the future." The justice system’s response to Jan. 6"will impact whether January 6 becomes an outlier or a watershed moment," prosecutors wrote.
"The defendants understood the stakes, and they embraced their role in bringing about a 'revolution.' They unleashed a force on the Capitol that was calculated to exert their political will on elected officials by force and to undo the results of a democratic election. The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power," prosecutors wrote."They failed. They are not heroes; they are criminals.
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