Rioters’ Lawyers Furious Over The Kraken’s Plea Deal

Politico reports:

When Sidney Powell, a top ally of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Thursday to crimes associated with the 2020 election, lawyers for many Jan. 6 defendants were stunned by her relatively meager sentence: six years of probation and a modest fine. For years, those lawyers — and some judges — have lamented that the thousands who breached the Capitol were used as pawns and dupes by Trump, Powell and their associates in a bid to subvert the election.

“This is sick and scandalous,” said Carmen Hernandez, a defense attorney whose clients include Proud Boy Zachary Rehl. “There are J6 defendants with no priors who’ve served jail time. It’s obscene given that she was a prominent attorney and was one of the leading and loudest of the ‘stolen election’ BS.” Norm Pattis, who represents Proud Boy Joseph Biggs and InfoWars broadcaster Owen Shroyer, said it simply didn’t sit right to see Powell receive light punishment.

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NEW: Jan. 6 defendants have often argued they were just pawns for powerful figures like Donald Trump and Sidney Powell.

Some of their lawyers are “gobsmacked” by the mild/generous plea deal Powell got compared to some low-level riot defendants.https://t.co/MrgiK158Ph

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 20, 2023