![]() ![]() Prosecutors asked Moss to impose a $23,485 fine, which equals the amount of money raised by an online fundraising campaign called “Bruno Cua: An American’s Future at Stake.” The website said the funds will be used for Cua’s “many expenses in his pursuit of his freedom.Hi, friends! I hope the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing and the lemonade is flowing in your neck of the woods. The judge handed down the verdict after a “stipulated bench trial,” a proceeding in which Cua didn’t contest the facts supporting his convictions. 6 congressional proceeding and assaulting a federal officer. Moss decided the case against Cua without a jury in February, convicting him of obstructing the Jan. Before leaving, Cua rifled through desks belonging to Senators Charles Grassley, John Thune and Dianne Feinstein. Then he opened a door, allowing dozens of other rioters onto the Senate floor. After the officer retreated, Cua entered the gallery, shouting “This is our house! This is our country!” Jumping onto the Senate floor, he sat in the chair for then-Vice President Mike Pence, leaned back and propped his feet up on a desk. They said Cua intended to intimidate staffers who were behind the doors as he yelled, “Hey! Where are the swamp rats hiding?”Ĭua went to the third floor, where he shoved a Capitol police officer who was trying to lock doors to the Senate gallery. “As Cua walked down the hallway, he tried to open every single office door he passed by pulling on doorknobs, pounding on the doors with his fist, and kicking the doors,” prosecutors wrote. After climbing scaffolding, Cua entered the building through the Upper West Terrace doors and and walked down a hallway toward the Senate. 6 disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.Ĭua was armed with pepper spray and a metal baton - weapons given to him by his father - when rioters breached police lines on the west side of the Capitol, according to prosecutors. The Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. ![]() ![]() Bilyard, of Cary, North Carolina, also was 18 when he stormed the Capitol, pepper sprayed a line of police officers and used a bat to break into a Capitol conference room.Ĭua and his parents drove from their home in Milton, Georgia, to Washington D.C., arriving a day before then-President Donald Trump spoke at his “Stop the Steal” rally. District Judge Reggie Walton sentenced Aiden Bilyard to three years and four months of incarceration. Other young rioters have received prison terms. ![]() “I did something stupid to land myself there, but it was traumatizing,” Cua said. In this way, the law recognizes that an 18-year-old is capable of making mature decisions,” they wrote in a court filing. “Americans who reach the age of 18 are entrusted with several important responsibilities and duties including voting, joining the military, signing a contract, and serving on a jury. Prosecutors said Cua’s age is “only slightly” a mitigating factor in his favor. 6 “reflect his immaturity at the time and the effects that the crowd had on such a young person,” defense attorneys wrote in a court filing.Īround the time of the riot, Cua was finishing online coursework to graduate from high school. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.Ĭua’s attorneys cited his youth as grounds for leniency. 6-related crimes. Cua is one of at least six Capitol riot defendants born in 2002, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. More than 1,000 people have been charged with Jan. It’s a tragic case for you and your family,” the judge told him. ![]()
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