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Ty Garbin admitted his role in the alleged scheme weeks after his arrest last fall. He is among six men charged in federal court but the only one to plead guilty so far. It was a key victory for prosecutors as they try to prove an astonishing plot against the others.
Garbin apologized to Whitmer, who was not in court, and her family
https://www.wsaw.com/2021/08/25/1st-sentence-be-handed-down-michigan-governor-kidnapping-plot/
Sogo
(4,986 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)mopinko
(70,093 posts)CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)I saw a working gallows erected on site.
mopinko
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and had the actual means to do it.
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)Look at the pictures again, at the flimsy pieces of wood and the stringy cord used to make the noose. There's no way that thing could have supported the weight of an adult. It was more like a replica of a gallows than an actual working gallows.
Did the builder(s) really think they were going to hang Mike Pence or anyone else on that thing? Who knows. Considering the mean i.q. of that mob, it's not impossible. But it was so blatantly inadequate to the task that defense attorneys could easily argue that it was just constructed for show, thereby creating "reasonable doubt" about the true intentions of its constructor(s).
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Response to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #18)
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Celerity
(43,344 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)They would have killed any of Pence, Pelosi, AOC, or other prominent lawmakers if they had found them.
localroger
(3,626 posts)The Feds don't like losing cases they prosecute. They are going for things they are sure can be proved beyond reasonable doubt with the evidence at hand so far. The kidnap guys left more clues per person and there was a CI who could solidly tie them all together (who himself got 6 years, so the rest of them are looking at a lot longer). Should that kind of evidence emerge in the Jan 6 case -- and they're looking very diligently -- you can expect more charges.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)His co-defendants have to figure they're going to get 10 years or more. That's too bad. Sad, even.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Well, at least his life won't be restricted while he's in prison for 6 years, or however long he actually serves.
Peace
malaise
(268,977 posts)Rec
Vinca
(50,269 posts)Auggie
(31,168 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,371 posts)Oh well.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)He cooperated. Id expect to see 12-20 years fit the rest of these anti American terrorists.
underpants
(182,791 posts)Right?
gab13by13
(21,331 posts)johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)he can use his jail time to study about science and vaccines.
soldierant
(6,857 posts)has more important things to do than to be in the courtroom for this.