An Idaho man who hit a police officer with a pipe as part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last year was …
An Idaho man who hit a police officer with a pipe as part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last year was sentenced Friday to more than four years in federal prison. Duke Edward Wilson, a 68-year-old logger from the small city of Nampa, told U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that he didn’t remember many of his actions. Prosecutors said he attacked at least three officers in a tunnel in the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan.6,2021. Lamberth said the 51-month sentence – the maximum allowed under federal sentencing guidelines – was necessary because the insurrection was “a horrible day for our country.” “It’s a message that the court has to send, that our country cannot deal with that,” Lamberth said. The federal judges overseeing the hundreds of cases against those accused of participating in the insurrection have heard a litany of excuses and expressions of remorse from those convicted during dozens of sentencings held so far. More than 700 people have been charged with crimes connected to the Capitol siege, and more than 200 of them have pleaded guilty. Besides Wilson, at least five other defendants have been sentenced for assaulting police and most received prison sentences ranging from 41 to 63 months.
