{"id":7113,"date":"2022-01-27T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2022-01-27T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T19:23:06","slug":"why-doj-is-avoiding-domestic-terrorism-sentences-for-jan-6-defendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7113","title":{"rendered":"Why DOJ is avoiding domestic terrorism sentences for Jan. 6 defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In front of judges and in court filings, the Justice Department is engaged in a delicate rhetorical dance on the domestic terrorism issue. Seeking to satisfy a large swath of the public outraged by the Jan. 6 riot, prosecutors have declared that the event \u201ccertainly\u201d qualifies as domestic terrorism. But they\u2019ve kept their powder dry thus far on invoking theterrorism sentencing boost \u2014 potentially because its impact can be so severe.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Invoking the terrorism enhancement typically adds about 15 years in prison to a defendant\u2019s recommended sentence, sets the minimum calculation at 17 and a half years, and also flips the person charged into the criminal-history category used for serial offenders.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/04\/doj-domestic-terrorism-sentences-jan-6-526407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/04\/doj-domestic-terrorism-sentences-jan-6-526407<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In front of judges and in court filings, the Justice Department is engaged in a delicate rhetorical dance on the domestic terrorism issue. Seeking to satisfy a large swath of the public outraged by the Jan. 6 riot, prosecutors have declared that the event \u201ccertainly\u201d qualifies as domestic terrorism. But they\u2019ve kept their powder dry thus far on invoking the terrorism sentencing boost \u2014 potentially because its impact can be so severe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Invoking the terrorism enhancement typically adds about 15 years in prison to a defendant\u2019s recommended sentence, sets the minimum calculation at 17 and a half years, and also flips the person charged into the criminal-history category used for serial offenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1143,1138,818,1135,1134],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-department-of-justice","tag-insurrection","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7114,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions\/7114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}