Felony Justice
Georgia lawyer who bragged of shutting down ‘stolen election shenanigans’ is discovered responsible in Jan. 6 case
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A federal decide in Washington, D.C., discovered a Georgia prison protection lawyer responsible of a number of expenses Monday for getting into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and pounding on doorways with different rioters earlier than making it to exterior the workplace of Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the U.S. Home of Representatives.
U.S. District Decide Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia discovered William McCall Calhoun Jr., 59, of Americus, Georgia, responsible of 1 felony and a number of other misdemeanors for his actions, in response to a March 21 press release from the Division of Justice.
She dominated after a two-day bench trial, in response to Law360.
The felony cost was obstruction of an official continuing. The misdemeanors have been getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol constructing.
Prosecutors say Calhoun had posted this message on Fb later Jan. 6: “As we speak the American individuals proved now we have the facility. We bodily took management of the Capitol constructing in a hand-to-hand hostile takeover. We occupied the Capitol and shut down the federal government—we shut down their stolen election shenanigans.”
The utmost penalty for the felony is 20 years in jail.
Calhoun had informed WUSA in January 2022 that he had rejected a plea deal that included the felony cost.
“I do know I didn’t commit a felony,” Calhoun informed the printed station. Calhoun mentioned he thought that he entered the Capitol in a “peaceable protest.”
He had informed the Atlanta Journal-Structure in January 2021 that the individuals who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 have been “heroic” and “very patriotic.” He mentioned his crime amounted to not more than trespassing.
Calhoun remains to be licensed to follow in Georgia—with no public self-discipline on his document. A bar spokesperson beforehand mentioned the bar was ready for expenses in opposition to Calhoun to be resolved earlier than taking motion.
Calhoun didn’t instantly reply to an ABA Journal e mail in search of remark. His attorneys declined to remark when contacted by Law360.
