b1-66er: "8 On Your Side spoke with a criminal law expert about the charges someone who charged the Capitol Building could be facing.
These are burglars, they are insurrectionists, they have committed thefts and armed offenses, threatened congress members, they are looking at the type of charges that could get them decades if not the remainder of their life in prison," said Jeffrey Swartz.
b1-67er: I doubt that they will throw the book at these people though.
66: I can tell you I wouldn't want to be the one to try and figure it out.
At the heart of the matter is can we let common citizens/anybody run roughshod through a community building?
I'll tell you what, I'd be combing that building for bugs...
What an ideal time to get a foreign operative inside.
67: I think he's missing the biggie. If someone dies because you are commiting a crime...that's murder in most places.
66: Ohhhh yeah.
Funny how i overlook death-related charges. Murder, manslaughter and its deformed little cousins.
"His lawyer, John Bryan, previously told CNN in a statement Thursday that his client "had no choice but to enter" the Capitol due to the size of the crowd he was in, and that "it wasn't apparent to Mr. Evans that he wasn't allowed to follow the crowd into this public area of the Capitol, inside which members of the public were already located.""
D4rw1n: And if it is a capital crime you are committing, then it's capital murder
66: And if it happened in the government building it would be...
...Capitol capital murder!
D4: As to the insurrectionists planting bugs: in the footage so far released, I didn't see a lot of the type of higher prefrontal cortex function that would be a predicate for planting effective listening devices.
I also saw the 'no choice' quote. That is not the best legal argument I've ever heard
