Washington – The sweeping pardons that President Donald Trump gave to January 6 the uproar in his first day of return in office do not ask a fuss of the Capitol that was sentenced separately by a federal jury in Tennessee to consign the agents From the FBI who investigated their actions in the Capitol, the prosecutors of the Department of Justice said a federal court on Tuesday.
Edward Kelley was the fourth winner to violate the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and was sentenced to attack the police and other positions after a trial in Washington last year in which the FBI alleged that he was armed with a gun when Failure to comply with the Capitol. Kelley was sentenced separately by a federal jury in Tennessee of conspiracy to kill the employees of the United States, request a crime of violence and influence or take reprisals against federal officials by threat.
Prosecutors wrote that Kelley “devised a plan to kill the Federal, state and local police in East Tennessee.”
The Department of Justice said that the evidence in the trial showed that Kelley developed a “list of murders” of special agents of the FBI and others who investigated their conduct. “Each blow has to hurt,” Kelley told a conspirator, according to the Department of Justice. “Each blow has to hurt.”
Kelley was among the more than 1,500 defendants who were forgiven by Trump on January 20 for their actions during the Capitol attack. Kelley was the fourth uproar to violate the Capitol, and then helped violate a fire escape door, allowing the mafia to flood inside, according to prosecutors.
But Kelley’s lawyer had argued that the massive forgive January 6, 2021 “.
Federal prosecutors in Tennessee did not agree, writing in a judicial presentation that consulted with others in the Department of Justice and that the “simple language of the presidential proclamation [Kelley] Appointment excludes the relief you are looking for. “
Prosecutors described the language of Trump’s proclamation, which granted pardons to the defendants convicted of crimes related to events that occurred in or near the Capitol on January 6, 2021, “unequivocal”.
“In his motion to dismiss his accusation and vacate his sentences by jury in this case, the defendant maintains that his 2022 conduct in East Tennessee is related to the events that occurred in or near the Capitol of the United States on the 6th of January 2021 and, therefore, covered by the proclamation, “federal prosecutors wrote.” The defendant is wrong. ”
The case of the plot of the murder “is not about January 6, 2021,” they wrote, but “about the criminal conduct completely independent of the defendant in Tennessee, at the end of 2022, more than 500 miles away from the Capitol: Threatening , requesting and conspiring to kill agents, officers and employees of the FBI, the Tennessee Research Office, the Tennessee road patrol, The Maryville Police Department, the Blount County Sheriff’s Office, and Clinton Police Department. “
Kelley, prosecutors wrote, should be “sentenced as scheduled on May 7, 2025.
