U.S. seeks 15-year sentence for Guy Reffitt for role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack [View all]

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The first defendant to be put on trial for involvement in the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol last year faces as many as 15 years in prison Monday when a judge hands down his sentence in federal court.

In March, a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 49-year-old Guy Wesley Reffitt, of Wylie, Texas, on five felony counts, including obstruction of justice and entering and remaining in a restricted building while armed.

Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich to classify Reffitt's crimes as acts of domestic terrorism, which could send him away for 15 years and become the longest sentence to date related to the Capitol attack.

Mr. Reffitt's attorney thinks 15 years is a sentence all out of proportion for his pure-as-the-driven-snow client:

"It's absolutely absurd," Broden said according to ABC News. "I certainly don't condone what Mr. Reffitt did. And I think everybody realizes the seriousness of the offenses. But at the same point, there has to be some proportionality here."

Reffitt was one of the tourists that day who was very anxious to make the acquaintance of the Speaker of the House, and to drag her out of the Capitol, bouncing her head off each stair on the way out.