Three years of probation, 40 hours of community service and $500 is the punishment federal prosecutors have requested for the first Capitol rioter, Anna Morgan-Lloyd, expected to be sentenced in court. Anna Morgan-Lloyd is a 49-year-old Donald Trump supporter from Indiana.
With nearly 500 people already arrested and charged for their roles in the 6 January attack, the sentencing of Morgan-Lloyd, a grandmother from a small town in Indiana with no known connections to extremist groups, will be the first indication of what kinds of sentences federal judges may impose on the hundreds of people who invaded the Capitol during the official certification of Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
While some members of extremist groups are facing more serious conspiracy charges for allegedly planning the violence at the Capitol in advance, and others are facing charges for assaulting law enforcement officers, many defendants, like Morgan-Lloyd, are facing only misdemeanor charges.
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