{"id":597036,"date":"2021-07-19T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597036"},"modified":"2021-07-19T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:20:53","slug":"breaking-first-capitol-rioter-charged-with-felony-gets-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-first-capitol-rioter-charged-with-felony-gets-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: First Capitol Rioter Charged With Felony Gets Jail Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fbreaking-first-capitol-rioter-charged-with-felony-gets-jail-time%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=597036&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/riot-2-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Florida man who was charged with a felony after breaching the Senate chamber in the United States Capitol during a riot on Jan. 6 was sentenced Monday to eight months in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, was the first person charged with a felony to be sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>During a court appearance, Hodgkins apologized to the court, saying he was ashamed of his actions and merely got caught up in the moment as a mob swarmed into the Capitol to protest the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had any idea that the protest \u2026 would escalate (the way) it did \u2026 I would never have ventured farther than the sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue,\u201d Hodgkins told the judge, The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-government-and-politics-capitol-siege-sentencing-785d865e0be2bc912614821768cf95b5\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThis was a foolish decision on my part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under an agreement with prosecutors, Hodgkins pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing an official proceeding, a felony that carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence.&nbsp;Prosecutors argued for an 18-month sentence, saying in one court filing that Hodgkins, \u201clike each rioter, contributed to the collective threat to democracy\u201d by forcing lawmakers to abort the certification of the newly elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Said the AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-203 Component-p-0-2-194\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Sedky said that, while Hodgkins didn\u2019t engage in violence himself, he walked among many who did \u2014 in what she called \u201cthe ransacking of the People\u2019s House.\u201d And as he walked by smashed police barriers, he could see the smoke of tear gas and the chaos ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-203 Component-p-0-2-194\">\u201cWhat does he do?\u201d she asked the court. \u201cHe walks toward it. He doesn\u2019t walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that Hodgkins was in the midst of a mob that forced lawmakers to seek shelter and some congressional staffers to hide in fear, locked in officers as hundreds swept through the building. Those in fear for their lives that day will, she said, \u201cbear emotional scars for many years \u2014 if not forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-203 Component-p-0-2-194\">Hodgkins was not accused of assaulting officers or damaging property, and prosecutors said he took responsibility for his actions by pleading guilty to the obstruction charge. But prosecutors also said when he boarded a bus heading to Washington, D.C., he was carrying a rope, protective goggles and latex gloves in a backpack, which they said meant he was prepared for violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-203 Component-p-0-2-194\">But his lawyer urged the judge to go easy on Hodgkins, saying his actions will haunt him for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-203 Component-p-0-2-194\">Hodgkins\u2019 actions on Jan. 6 \u201cis the story of a man who for just one hour on one day lost his bearings \u2026 who made a fateful decision to follow the crowd,\u201d said&nbsp;lawyer Patrick N. Leduc, who added that is a law-abiding citizen who routinely volunteered at a food bank.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i> member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man who was charged with a felony after breaching the Senate chamber in the United States Capitol during a riot on Jan. 6 was sentenced Monday to eight &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}