Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons don’t cover Capitol rioter who plotted to kill FBI agents, DOJ says
WASHINGTON – The sweeping pardon that President Donald Trump granted riots on January 6 on his first day in his position that does not apply to the combat of Capitol, which was separately separately It was convicted by a federal jury in Tennessee by planning to kill FBI agents Prosecutors in the Ministry of Justice told a federal court on Tuesday that those who achieved his actions in the Capitol.
Edward Kelly The fourth riot was to violate the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and Condemn From the assault on law enforcement and other charges after a trial in Washington last year in which the FBI claimed that it was Armed with a pistol when he violated the Capitol. Kelly was then Separately convicted by a federal jury in Tennessee to conspire to kill US employeesSitting a crime of violence, influence or revenge against federal officials by threatening.
Prosecutors wrote that Kelly “invented a plan to kill federal, state and local law enforcement in East Tennessee.”
The Ministry of Justice said that the evidence in the trial showed that Kelly developed a “killing” of private agents FBI and others who investigated his behavior. “Every blow should be hurt,” Kelly said to the co -consumer. “Every blow should hurt.”
Kelly was among more than 1500 accused Trump was pardoned on January 20 For their actions during the Capitol attack. Kelly was the fourth riot to violate the Capitol, then helped break the door of escape from the fire, which allowed the mobs to flood, according to the prosecutors.
But Kelly lawyer Argue This comprehensive amnesty of President Donald Trump on January 6 must be applied to Kelly’s conviction of the murder conspiracy because it “directly related to events in the Capitol in the United States on January 6, 2021.”
Federal public prosecutors did not agree Lift They consulted with others in the Ministry of Justice and that “the simple language of the presidential advertisement [Kelley] He cites the comfort guard he seeks. “
Public Prosecutors called on the language of Trump’s advertisement – who granted amnesty to defendants convicted of crimes related to events that occurred in the Capitol or near them on January 6, 2021 – “unambiguously.”
“In his request to reject his indictment and evacuate the condemnation of the jury in this case, the defendant claims that his behavior in 2022 in East Tennessee is linked to the events that occurred in the United States Capitol or near Jan Federalists. “The defendant is wrong.”
The issue of the murder plot “not on January 6, 2021”, they wrote, but “about the independent criminal behavior of the defendant in Tennessee, in late 2022, more than 500 miles from Capitol: threat, petition, and conspiracy to killing agents, officers and employees in an office Federal Investigations, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Tennessee Road Road in Tennessee, Marifel Police Department, Province Office Sherif, and the Clinton Police Department.
Kelly wrote, as the general prosecutors wrote, “Judgment on May 7, 2025.”
