Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence a convicted January 6th attacker to 15 years in prison, saying his participation was an act of domestic terrorism and merited a stiffer punishment, NBC News reports.
A member of the far-right ultranationalist III%ers, Texan Guy Reffitt was convicted by a jury of entering the Capitol with a gun and zip ties. After deliberating for just two hours during the March trial, the jury convicted him of five counts including transport of a firearm in support of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.
In a court filing Friday, prosecutors asserted the domestic terrorism enhancement was appropriate “to deter others is especially strong because Reffitt engaged in acts of violence that were intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion — acts that have been defined, by statute, as domestic terrorism.”