Holy shit! Trump-appointed judge holds 1/6 rioter IN CONTEMPT & jails him for 5 months

[kpete]

Holy shit! A trump-appointed judge just held a 1/6 rioter IN CONTEMPT and jailed him for five months for his behavior during trial.

That’s five months JUST for his conduct during trial!

Update to this: Judge McFadden held #Jan6 #CapitolRiot defendant Brandon Fellows, who insisted on representing himself, in CRIMINAL CONTEMPT and sentenced him to five months in jail for his conduct during the trial, per docket. He also awaits jury verdict.

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A Jan. 6 defendant who represented himself in court after being accused of smoking marijuana in a senator’s office during the Capitol attack was held in criminal contempt on Tuesday, with the judge overseeing his trial smacking him with a five-month jail sentence before jury deliberations in the case were even set to begin. Brandon Fellows, 29, has been in custody since June 2021 on a federal felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, as well as a number of other misdemeanors. As his trial, which began last week, wrapped up on Tuesday, Fellows took the stand. Asked about sitting down in the office that belonged to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Fellows remarked, “I didn’t know it was a senator’s desk. It felt very comfy.” He also insisted that the rioters “had the right to overthrow” the government on Jan. 6. Later, as U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden explained to Fellows that he had forfeited his right to a rebuttal, Fellows replied, “I would expect nothing less from a kangaroo court,” according to NBC News. His contempt sentence was first reported by a Politico journalist. The jury is expected to begin deliberating on Fellows’ charges on Wednesday morning.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-rioter-brandon-fellows-held-in-criminal-contempt-ahead-of-jury-decision

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. !!

[struggle4progress]

2. Brandon Fellows is a dim fellow

[madinmaryland]

17. Way to go Brandon!

[gratuitous]

77. I'd love to be the cop that escorts him to lock-up

"Let's go, Brandon."

Not quite so humorous now, is it Brandon? Enjoy your time in jail, and then the prison sentence after that when you're convicted of your crimes.

[3Hotdogs]

3. Ya gotta google his picture. To quote the great 20th century philosopher and orator, Bugs Bunny,

"What a maroon !"

[CurtEastPoint]

15. that was a disguise, I think. Here he is.

[Iggo]

33. It was the kid?

And he’s basically daring the court to give him more time. Hope he enjoys being a minority. He’s gonna be there for a bit.

[Oopsie Daisy]

69. I don't think he'll be able to tolerate prison very well.

[LiberalFighter]

34. He needs his face bloated more.

[hadEnuf]

36. A seditious shitpunk.

He needs a tribunal and a trip to Gitmo.

Screw these traitors.

[Sky Jewels]

71. That's a Backpfeifengesicht* if I ever saw one.

*German for: "A face badly in need of a fist."

[calimary]

74. They'll probably have other parts of him in mind, in prison.

Just a guess.

[CrispyQ]

85. I did not know there was a word for that!!

Ha, ha. Going to look up how to say it! Thanks!

[Sky Jewels]

93. Gern geschehen!

(Apparently, that's how you say "you're welcome." )

[Faux pas]

4. FAFO

[blogslug]

6. Fool for a client, something something

Have fun finding out, asshole.

[Mr.Bill]

7. By that standard

Trump should be doing life in prison just for his comments about the judicial system.

[TheRealNorth]

8. It seems to me....

He basically admitted he was trying to overthrow the government. That should make a sedition charge a slam dunk.

[RockRaven]

9. He might be the most lenient on those who tried to execute a coup/overturn a Presidential election

but he'll be damned if anyone is going to insult him personally while he's working. For that he's prepared to be a hardass.

[Maraya1969]

11. Good point.

[Maraya1969]

10. Here is why he ended up in jail on 6/23

Fellows faces one count each of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; entering and remaining in certain rooms of the Capitol building; and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

He had been allowed to remain free after his January 2021 arrest but under increasingly restrictive conditions, until his June 2021 re-arrest. Federal prosecutors twice before asked for his release to be revoked. A judge disagreed both times, but first ordered him under home detention and then, on June 4, 2021, ordered him to undergo a mental health evaluation and comply with all treatment recommendations.

However, prosecutors reported in a new motion on June 14, 2021 that he not only skipped the mental health evaluation but attempted to intimidate his supervising probation officer by contacting the officer’s mother.

[yardwork]

19. Oh he's that guy! The one who harassed his probation officer's mother.

[Hortensis]

49. Thanks. He also called relatives of two judges

in what he said was an attempt to get the judges disqualified. It worked in the case of one.

Wonder if he ever got the court ordered mental status exam.

[TSExile]

12. He represented himself?

What's that quote about an attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client?

[Rocknation]

13. Does he qualify to file an appeal on the basis of

ineffective counsel?


Rocknation

[vlyons]

14. Dirt bag

and sociopath

[Tickle]

16. Idiot 🙄 NT

[Silent3]

18. I'm not sure from reading this what specific behavior earned the five-month contempt penalty

Was it simply saying, "I would expect nothing less from a kangaroo court", or something more than that?

[Justice matters.]

24. If insulting a Judge in his court as being a kangaroo is not contempt...

I wonder what else is...

[Silent3]

73. I don't disagree that's contempt, but three months in jail for one untoward remark...

...is way out of proportion to the offense.

[markpkessinger]

75. Have you read the rest of this thread?

It was a lot more than "one untoward remark!"

[Silent3]

76. When I originally asked my question, there was no more detail.

The article in the OP mentioned no more than that one remark, and no one else had elaborated on more.

[Justice matters.]

92. Gotta learn how "everyone" HAS to behave in a Court of Justice.

Not just that punk alone: ALL the others like him.

How to achieve that mandate is to make one easy example with one, hoping all the others like him will take good note of the harsh punishment. Now if they don't care, then be judges guests.

[ECL213]

57. During the trial...

He would repeatedly yell, "Wahoo!", throw a pickaxe in the air, pick it up, sniff it, lick it and then exclaim, "Nuthin!" in an unruly manner.

[geardaddy]

78. LOL

[democratsruletheday]

20. Let's GO Brandon!!!!!!!!!!

Did I do that right?

He looks like a maga Dbag from hell in his mug shot. He'll have another 5 months to rot until he begins his soon to be announced sentence....correct? LOFL, what a clown.

[SCantiGOP]

28. I was wondering when this would get posted

Let’s go to jail, Brandon.

[sellitman]

72. Would he be

Orange Brandon?

[The_Casual_Observer]

21. Clearly that person had no business defending himself.

[SCantiGOP]

30. My wife is an attorney

She said a judge can urge a defendant not to represent himself, but they only way she knows to forbid it and appoint a public defender is with a mental health ruling.

[The_Casual_Observer]

38. Apparently that guy wouldn't submit to a mental health evaluation.

He claims to be on the spectrum and have ADD.

I don't care for the responses on here about him being a dumbass and so on. It seems as though he needs help.

[SCantiGOP]

42. He's better off in jail

He does need some psychiatric care. Judge did their job.

[The_Casual_Observer]

46. He isn't going to get any care in jail at all but what do you care.

Long ago there were state institutions, not that good but a damn measure better than a jail. The jails are loaded with lost people that have mental illness and it's a horrible mess. The jailers have no training or interest in taking care of this. It's a goddamn cruel ugly system that is completely ignored by "polite society" that says "he is better get off in jail" because he does maga shit. JFC already.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

55. Mental illness is no excuse for his hateful behavior

And those of us who have struggled with mental illness resent when people act like our condition is automatically a get-out-of-jail card because we're just too out of our bloody minds to know better. Unless the mental illness is full-blown schizophrenia, the mentally ill do know better. You're treating us like we're not capable of that--when we are.

Again, outside of full-blown untreated schizophrenia, being mentally ill does not mean that we aren't responsible for our actions, and it certainly doesn't permit us to be immoral or do immoral things without consequence. It doesn't mean that we can tell a judge to his face that he's running a kangaroo court and thenexpect tea and sympathy by crying mental illness.

In fact, most of us who've had a mental illness would never do anything like that--either the stupid remark, or the crying part.

He can try to blame his wretched behavior on mental illness, but i don't put much store in that sort of claim from a MAGAt. They're all known liars.

What is patently obvious is that he's an arsehole, and that's not a mental illness; it's a character deficiency.

[The_Casual_Observer]

66. So in a couple of years he will be out in the streets again. Worse for the wear.

Good times.

[geardaddy]

80. Thank you.

He can be a dumbass AND suffer from mental illness.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

61. ....

46. He isn't going to get any care in jail at all but what do you care.

I can tell you that, personally, I don't give a crap what happens to him, he can rot in prison.
It's a case of fuck around/find out and he's finding out the consequences of his traitorous actions.

Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

59. Well, here's my response,

he's not a dumbass, he's a fucking dumbass who deserves everything he gets.

[The_Casual_Observer]

65. Nice

[MarineCombatEngineer]

68. I thought so,

that's why I wrote it and I stand by it.

I have zero tolerance and zero fucks to give to a traitorous piece of shit that tried to overthrow our democracy.

[Evolve Dammit]

70. hear hear

[geardaddy]

82. Bingo!

[paleotn]

22. They're actual Federalist Society appointees.

Donnie the Dumbass appointed whoever he was told to appoint. Turns out, many if not most dislike insurrections about as much as we do.

[not fooled]

26. Yep

Who needs messy, scary insurrections when you can impose your views via Leonard Leo's judiciary?

Much more civilized that way. Doesn't scare the peasants.

[2naSalit]

29. Something about...

Getting rid of the competition?

[MayReasonRule]

50. Nah - They Only Like Successful Insurrectionists!!!

[LAS14]

51. Thanks for this. Sometimes a DU thread can start sounding like....Well,....

...I'd better not say or I might get alerted.

[SpamWyzer]

23. This fellow,

Brandon (LOL/ "Let's go...!&quot had apologized to the court in 2021. The court is still busy with this idiot and he has become less interested in his own freedom, apparently. I am guessing he has some mental disorder. It is both entertaining and disconcerting to see someone of his age throw his life away for tRump and all the moronic Maga garbage/diarrhea of the mind.

[Justice matters.]

25. Perhaps he would have thrown his life away by himself in other behaviors?

He simply looks like an uneducated punk in that mug shot.

Too many joints and too many violent video games?

[Rural_Progressive]

31. Probably not weed

but they sure do sell stuff in my little slice of heaven that will get you where that boy is heading.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

62. Meth is a hell of a drug. nt

[Cha]

27. FU Stupid Clod How you like trump's judge?

[LAS14]

52. Are you directing this to the OP author?

[Cha]

79. Kpete & everyone else knows I'm talking about

This Asshole... Why don't you?

Link to tweet

[LAS14]

81. "Why don't you?"

Uh, gee... Not sure. Because I don't know you??? Because the syntax was ambiguous???? Why do you think I asked????

[Cha]

83. Why do you think I would be Insulting kpete

After being on DU for 21 years?

I don't insult other DUers.. I call out Magat Fuck ups.. so now you know.

[LAS14]

84. Well, as I said, I don't know you, and a lot of DUers DO insult others. So I checked. nt

[Cha]

86. Investigate Before you ask questions like that

No one would be lasting 21 years on DU going around Insulting kpete or anyone like that.

Notice how many posts I have.. I'm an active member of DU.

This is who I am..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1234&pid=7281

[LAS14]

88. It was just a question. You could have just replied, "No, it was to the rioter." nt

[Cha]

89. No I'll react the way I want to after

such a question that had no merit.

[LAS14]

90. OK. Well, at least I know you better than I did a day ago. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. A person who represents himself has a fool for a client

[COL Mustard]

35. Let's go, Brandon!

How cool is that???

[iluvtennis]

37. A pathetic POS who thinks he is above the law. 😤 n/t

[3825-87867]

39. Can you say rendition?

Congratulaions Brandon. You've just won a 6 month stay at one of our associate country's finer country clubs. Plenty of exercise, time in the sun and don't forget all that water sport!

And...if you come back... and do it again, chances are you'll be rewarded with at least another year of fun in their sun, maybe even a stay to our friendly neighbor south of Florida. (Batteries not included!)

[rubbersole]

40. Nice disguise.

That cap covers the dent in your head you got when you were dropped as a baby.

[NH Ethylene]

41. Just because Trump appointed him doesn't mean he can't function as a judge and oversee a fair trial.

I think most judges take their job seriously and try to not let prejudices affect their proceedings. Those who can't do this are the bad apples we hear about.

[Blue Owl]

43. Douchebag looks like he's ready to step into a Slim Jim

[calimary]

44. What does this "per docket" wording mean?

It's in the Mueller She Wrote tweet.

"...sentenced him to five months in jail for his conduct during the trial, per docket. He also awaits jury verdict.

Does that mean it's "per what the docket stipulates" ("per" for "as in&quot ? Is there a single docket covering all this, or are there many separate dockets in this whole complaint?

Not a lawyer here. Betcha couldn't tell...

[RainCaster]

60. There is a docket (document) explaining details of the offenses

that have this defendant sent to jail for his behaviors in court.

[calimary]

63. So it's a single docket they're talking about, then. Correct?

[flying_wahini]

45. Having adult sons I feel for his parents. It must be heartbreaking to know he is going away for

a spell. When (if) he gets out he will be even more radicalized and still stupid.

[ZonkerHarris]

47. besmirched the court

[riversedge]

48. maybe he has a learning disability--or NOT!

[Emile]

53. Let's go Brandon

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

54. It's ever-so-delightful

When someone who insists on FA gets a whole lot more FO than he every bargained for.

[twodogsbarking]

56. MAGA Motherfucker Ain't Gettin' Away

[Emile]

58. What, there's news about something other than the hurricane.

[Vinca]

64. What loyalty. I bet the great orange one has invited him to Mar-a-Grifto a whole bunch of times.

[Brainfodder]

67. Toss the book at him, he needs a lot of time to think about it, 2+ wasn't enough, he's still spoutin

He must like it in there?

[Hassler]

87. Enjoy the fine prison cuisine, traitor.

[BlueWavePsych]

91. Kick