{"id":1950165,"date":"2023-06-17T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T00:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-oath-keepers-attorney-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-on-jan-6-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-06-17T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T00:23:32","slug":"former-oath-keepers-attorney-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-on-jan-6-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-oath-keepers-attorney-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-on-jan-6-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Oath Keepers&#8217; Lawyer Deemed Unfit for Jan 6 Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-oath-keepers-attorney-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-on-jan-6-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1950165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Former Oath Keepers Counsel Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial<\/h2>\n<p>Former Oath Keepers general counsel Kellye SoRelle has been ruled incompetent to stand trial on four Jan. 6 criminal counts, suspending her prosecution indefinitely while she seeks mental health treatment.<\/p>\n<p>At a hearing on June 16 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Judge Amit Mehta ruled that SoRelle will not stand trial as scheduled on July 10.<\/p>\n<p>SoRelle\u2019s attorney, federal public defender Horatio Aldredge IV of Austin, Texas, told Judge Mehta that SoRelle would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-oath-keepers-attorney-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-on-jan-6-charges\/\" title=\"Ex-Oath Keepers' Lawyer Deemed Unfit for Jan 6 Trial\">require inpatient mental health treatment<\/a> as soon as a slot becomes available. Details of SoRelle\u2019s condition were not released.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4705934\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02\/Kellye_SoRelle_LinkedIn.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    Attorney Kellye SoRelle (LinkedIn)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>SoRelle, 44, of Granbury, Texas, was <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.246841\/gov.uscourts.dcd.246841.1.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicted<\/a> on Aug. 31, 2022, on charges of conspiracy to obstruct an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-nbc-purchased-video-for-35000-from-man-charged-in-u-s-capitol-riot-court-docs\/\" title=\"CNN, NBC Purchased Video For ,000 From Man Charged In U.S. Capitol Riot: Court Docs\">official proceeding<\/a>; obstruction of an official proceeding, i.e. aiding and abetting, entering, and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; and obstruction of justice, i.e., tampering with documents.<\/p>\n<p>SoRelle has been free on her own recognizance pending the start of her trial.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that two days after Jan. 6, SoRelle instructed Rhodes and others in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/once-we-were-covid-hawks\/\" title=\"Once We Were COVID Hawks\">encrypted chat group<\/a> to delete any comments they had written about \u201cwho did what\u201d at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelete your self-incriminating comments or those that can incriminate others. Start now,\u201d SoRelle wrote, according to a court filing. \u201cEach of you go back to before the event and scroll forward and hunt down any comment you made that can be used against you, other Oath Keepers, or the org and delete them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SoRelle was watching Jan. 6 television coverage with Rhodes at a nearby hotel when Rhodes received a phone call saying violence had broken out at the Capitol. She accompanied him to the Capitol, although neither entered the building, according to Rhodes\u2019s May 2021 FBI interview.<\/p>\n<p>On a motion from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">federal prosecutors<\/a> in March, Mehta ordered SoRelle\u2019s case be joined to those of Oath Keepers Donovan Crowl, 52, of Woodstock, Ohio; and James Beeks, 51, of Windermere, Florida. The trial is scheduled for July 10 in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>SoRelle is the former girlfriend of Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, who was sentenced in May to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other Jan. 6-related convictions.<\/p>\n<p>SoRelle formerly served as the Oath Keepers attorney but relinquished that role in early<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Oath Keepers general counsel Kellye SoRelle, facing four Jan. 6 criminal counts, won&#8217;t stand trial as scheduled. Judge Amit Mehta ruled her incompetent and suspended the prosecution indefinitely. 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