PLANO, TEXAS --
The founder and chief of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group should stay behind bars till he goes on trial on sedition prices arising from final yr's assault on the U.S. Capitol, a federal Justice of the Peace dominated Wednesday.
Stewart Rhodes had been jailed sincehis Jan. 13 arrest on prices that he plotted with others to assault the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to cease Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
In a 17-page opinion, U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Kimberly Priest Johnson concluded that no bail circumstances would both guarantee public security or that the 56-year-old Granbury, Texas, man would make court docket appearances.
Prosecutors had urged Rhodes' continued detention, whereas his attorneys urged that buddies or family have custody. Certainly one of Rhodes' legal professionals, James Lee Brilliant, mentioned Wednesday that he and his co-counsel disagree with features of Johnson's ruling and will probably be submitting an attraction Thursday to the district court docket choose dealing with the case in Washington. He mentioned Rhodes is "doing nicely" and appears ahead to his trial.
Rhodes and 10 others had been the primary to be charged with sedition for his or her roles within the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by which 5 folks died. A federal indictment alleges Oath Keepers for weeks mentioned attempting to overturn the election outcomes and getting ready for a siege by buying weapons and establishing battle plans.
The indictment towards Rhodes alleges Oath Keepers fashioned two groups, or "stacks," that entered the Capitol. The primary stack break up up contained in the constructing to individually go after the Home and Senate. The second stack confronted officers contained in the Capitol Rotunda, the indictment mentioned. Outdoors Washington, the indictment alleges, the Oath Keepers had stationed two "fast response forces" that had weapons "in help of their plot to cease the lawful switch of energy."
Stewart Rhodes, founding father of Oath Keepers, speaks throughout a gun rights rally on the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Saturday April 20, 2013. (AP Photograph/Journal Inquirer, Jared Ramsdell, File)
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