DOJ Seeks to Jail Ray Epps for 6 Months for Jan. 6 Disorderly Conduct

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to send James Ray Epps Sr. to jail for six months when he appears for sentencing Jan. 9 on one count of disorderly or disruptive conduct at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice acknowledged in its 29-page sentencing memorandum that the Epps case stands alone among Jan. 6 prosecutions—not just for its lightning speed but also for the “compelling mitigating factors” that led to his pre-indictment plea deal in September 2023. “Although Epps engaged in felonious conduct during the riot on January 6, his case includes a variety of distinctive and compelling mitigating factors, which led the government to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and offer Epps a pre-indictment misdemeanor plea resolution,” DOJ senior trial counsel Michael Gordon wrote in the sentencing memo....