WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of rioters have been charged, convicted and sentenced for joining the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. Unlike their cases, Samuel Lazar’s appears to have been resolved in secret — kept under seal with no explanation, even after his release from prison.
Lazar, 37, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested in July 2021 on charges that he came to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, dressed in tactical gear and protective goggles, and used chemical spray on officers who were desperately trying to beat back the angry Donald Trump supporters.
There is no public record of a conviction or a sentence in Lazar’s court docket.
But the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press that the man was released from federal custody this week after completing a sentence for assaulting or resisting a federal officer. Lazar was sentenced in Washington’s federal court on March 17 to 30 months in prison, according to the Bureau of Prisons, but there’s no public record of such a hearing. He had been jailed since July 2021.
Read more here: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-secret-sentencing-3c4ffcc5ebeaff6fd6aa279d0ce888ad
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Our Constitution guarantees a PUBLIC TRIAL... only despots and tyrants hold secret trials... if one can call proceedings held by a kangaroo court a trial. Secrert trials are used to railroad innocent people and to intimidate political dissenters.
Someone recently wrote: "Fair trials are the hallmark of a civilized society; we no longer live in a civilized society!!" IMHO, that is an alarmingly accurate statement.
Yep, and one can be pretty sure that this was an executive decision, and in direct conflict with and violation of several and enumerated constitutional rights. Isn't that the same thing that happens under an executive declaration of martial law?