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Convicted Jan. 6 Pelosi office trespasser says trial was unfair because jury members weren't 'peers' [1]

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Date: 2023-01-23  

Richard Barnett and lawyers doing the whining thing.

On Monday, Jan. 6 insurrectionist Richard “Bigo” Barnett was convicted by a jury on “all eight counts in his indictment including felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.” You likely remember Barnett as the guy who had pictures taken of him with his feet up on then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk, and subsequently bragged about taking mail from Pelosi’s office and leaving a note saying, “Nancy, Bigo was here, you b!@#!”

The 62-year old ‘s initial defense was that he didn’t physically open the doors of the Capitol building and really just went inside to use the bathroom, and therefore anything that he happened to do once inside was not his fault. He also whined about being imprisoned as a result of his actions. By the time Barnett was in court, his defense amounted to the idea that his alter ego, aka “Bigo,” broke all the laws but he himself did not. In fact, Barnett said that guy—Bigo—was simply a “fucking idiot” and shouldn’t be held accountable for his actions. Real manly stuff. It’s sort of a reality television defense. Obviously, the jury did not buy the idea that saying you were play-acting at being an insurrectionist gives you immunity from breaking the law.

Barnett faces a wide gamut of sentencing possibilities. When leaving the courthouse after the verdict, Barnett and his legal counsel had an even newer defense that they hope to gin up some money for an appeal.

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