To date, only two Capitol riot defendants who have gone to trial have had their cases decided by a judge, CBS reports. On April 6, McFadden issued the first outright acquittal of a Capitol riot defendant after a two-day bench trial, Politico reported . New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin had claimed that he thought the police had allowed him into an entrance near the Capitol Rotunda during the riot. McFadden also let Capitol riot defendant Danielle Doyle of Oklahoma off with probation on October 1, rejecting prosecutors’ request for a stiffer sentence. “As McFadden sentenced Doyle, he said he thought she was “acting like all those looters and rioters last year.

Source: Huffington Post June 13, 2022 01:18 UTC