Cowboys For Trump Rioter Sentenced To Time Served

CBS News reports:

The founder of the “Cowboys for Trump” organization and commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico, Couy Griffin, was sentenced to 14 days in jail, a $3,000 fine, 60 hours of community service and a year of supervised release on Friday after being convicted of entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. Griffin, who has been in jail for 20 days, will receive credit for time served and will not have to serve additional time.

Read the full article. Earlier this week Griffin was sued by the New Mexico secretary of state because he refused to certify the results of Tuesday’s primary.

NOW: Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin sentenced to 14 days in prison with credit for time served for conviction on a misdemeanor charge tied to Jan 6.

He will not serve any additional jail time.

Judge McFadden also imposed a $3k fine and 1 year of supervised release.

— Rob Legare (@RobLegare) June 17, 2022

Expect more of this… wake up America and GOP, this will destroy us. This is now the plan for MAGA, place people in low levels who can refuse to do their basic duty.

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— Adam Kinzinger????✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) June 15, 2022