who knows. federal sentencing guidelines suggest a term of more like nine to 11 years in prison. but this is interesting. and this provides us some new insight. the federal prosecutors in the guy reffitt case have asked the judge for something called an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines. sentencing guidelines are nine to 11 years and they re asking for the court to consider a longer sentence than that, asking to add a sentencing enhancement to the case on the grounds of terrorism. onng the grounds what he did fi the statutory definition of terrorism. he engaged inst acts of violenc that were intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion,o act been defined by statute as domestic terrorism. now, it is up to the court, up to the judge whether or not to actually do that, to accept this terrorism enhancement on guy
other criminals away. and of course, you re under no obligation to cooperate. you are under no obligation to agree to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors in their efforts. if you are innocent, there s no way that you should plead guilty. you go to trial. you fight the charges. you get acquitted because you didn t do it. but if you are guilty, and you decide that you re not gonna plead guilty and cooperate, you are instead gonna go to trial, and you get yourself convicted. well, this new decision to seek a terrorism enhancement, this new decision by justice department prosecutors shows in that instance, could be something very much like what this guy reffitt is now up against, with a terrorism enhancement they re asking for 15 years in prison, which is no joke. that could change everything for, you know, every other defendant who, right now is weighing their options, weighing the risks of going to trial, versus pleading guilty, asking for mercy and agreeing to tell the truth abo
0 , so his son was 18, his daughter is 16. and on christmas eve, 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the like a month and a haf after th christmas eve 2020, his 18-year-old son went online to the fbi website to tips.fbi.gov and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do some things violent, that his dad was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials, the son told the fbi when he submitted that online tip that he believed his plan, his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself he told the fbi his father was planning to quot that was christmas eve 2020. when that young man submitted that tip to0. the fbi. i didn t hear back initially. it took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building, then the fbi decided.s that maybe that tip deserved some follow-up. by the time the fbi got in touch with the son, the son s father had not only trav
you look at the over 725, that number always seems to get bigger every week none of those charges have the word terrorism, but there are other serious federal crime so that is something that prosecutors i assume would have to look at. when evidence do they have? what evidence can they bring forward? which of these charges will stick in court? and what is the potential as they gather additional information or individual cases. could they bring something forward under different cause called the what is known as the terrorism enhancement 37 different crimes under that statute. but so far under the crimes any inclination right now to bring any of these terrorism charges there are some in the muslim community, i am one of them who are looking at how some of
a firearm, an m4 from one of the people who was in the room and she began firing at everyone in the room. luckily it didn t hit anyone. while she was firing, she was stating anti-american sentiment i want to kill as many effing americans as i can. she was taken into custody after being shot and taken care of and then sent to new york after being prosecuted. the trial took place in january of 2010. during that trial, by the way, for parts of the trial, and this is highly unusual, because of outbursts that she engaged in, including things of anti-semitism and also disruptive of the trial, she had to watch from her prison cell much of her own trial by live feed, camera feed. so she got a very significant sentence after being convicted because of the nature of the crime, because of the terrorism enhancement, the discharge of the weapon. and so some people who are anti-american and who are jihadist think that she is a