Washington – President Donald Trump A sweeping pardon for the participants on January 6, 2021, Capitol riot It does not extend to the separate crimes of one of the riots that were drawn to kill the law enforcement agents who investigated it, the American boycott judge, Thomas A. Varlan Ruling Monday.
Edward KellyWho was convicted on January 6 after the government provided extensive evidence that it was fourth of the riot that violated the Capitol after the law enforcement was attacked, pardoned by Trump with more than 1500 other guilty riots. However, Kelly was accused separately of planning to kill law enforcement officers involved in the investigation of a separate case. Kelly was convicted of these charges by a federal jury in Tennessee in NovemberAnd it is scheduled to be sentenced to May 7.
Ministry of Justice It has Flip-Flopped On the extent of Trump on January 6 in other cases, which included guns in Capitol riots, on the pretext that the president’s work should give the defendants a clean list of crimes or other charges that were discovered on January 6.
But the Ministry of Justice has constantly He emphasized that Trump does not intend to pardon Kelly for his plan to kill special agents at the FBI and other lawyers in the law.
Farlan, who was appointed to the bench in the eastern region of Tennessee by former President George W. Bush, spent on Monday that the pardon of Trump on January 6 “does not apply to the defendant’s convictions to conspire to kill killings in the United States (Count 1). He wrote that the amnesty” does not include a Tennessee’s case for the defendant because this issue included separate behavior in a crime that was physically, temporarily, and not Concerning the defendant’s behavior in the capital and/or events in the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The judge ruled that Kelly’s behavior in the murder conspiracy “was separated from the defendant’s behavior in the capital’s case in years and miles” and was not expected to be expected from the language of the comprehensive pardon of Trump.
“The evidence has proven that the defendant took an independent action to proceed with a violent attack against federal officials in Noxisfil – the measures that are reduced from the events of January 6, 2021,” Varlan wrote. Coordination with Austin Carter The Rudi Rudi for fighting, and its distribution to a list of targeted victims, all interfere without direct or close relationship to January 6, 2021, although perhaps with regard to the investigation of the behavior that occurs on January 6, 2021 – a form of relationship, as mentioned previously, significantly from the text of the mind. “
Late last month, a federal judge in Washington Grill assistant American lawyer About the new claim that Trump’s amnesty covered the charges related to the rifles that were found when federal agents looked on January 6, the defendant Dan Wilson did not judge in 2023. American boycott judge Dabney L. The attention is caught. “
“I don’t think you can only get an open amnesty,” said Friedrich. “We cannot” know that when we see it. “
