A defense attorney for a former Proud Boys leader convicted of a rare seditious conspiracy charge questioned Thursday during a hearing why former President Donald Trump was not also facing that charge.
“I wonder why that man isn’t charged with seditious conspiracy,” attorney Norm Pattis said in front of a D.C. courtroom ahead of his client, Zachary Rehl, receiving a 15-year prison sentence.
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Rehl, a former U.S. Marine, was one of four Proud Boys leaders convicted of the Civil War-era seditious conspiracy charge, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and other related charges for his role in organizing and leading a group of about 200 to breach the Capitol in 2021.
He received one of the longest prison sentences of the roughly 600 handed out so far in connection with the riot. Ahead of U.S. District…
