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Proud Boys member and Jan. 6 rioter angling for pardon


Left: attorney Norman Pattis. Right: Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Biggs.

Left: Attorney Norman Pattis (Law&Crime). Right: Joseph Biggs (via FBI court filing).

Add Proud Boys member and Florida man Joseph Biggs — convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to one of the longest prison terms for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, to the growing list of felons seeking a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, last year sentenced the 40-year-old Biggs to 17 years behind bars after a jury convicted him of seditious conspiracy, among other charges, in May 2023. Now his camp is hoping the prison sentence will soon end with Trump headed back to the White House.

Biggs’ attorney Norm Pattis, known for representing Alex Jones and Infowars employees, told Orlando Fox affiliate WOFL that he is writing Trump a letter urging him to give his client a pardon. Pattis said releasing Biggs from prison is in the public’s interest.

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“The notion that Mr. Biggs is some sort of domestic terrorist that should sit behind bars for 17 years is a chilling message to everyone,” Pattis told the TV station. “And that is you ought not to write patriotic hyperbole and then attend a protest, because if you do, an ambitious prosecutor is going to turn your words into circumstantial evidence of intent to commit a crime. And that’s just un-American.”

Pattis told the Daytona Beach News-Journal that Biggs is “excited and hopeful about the prospects of a pardon.” As the News-Journal pointed out, Biggs was confident about receiving a pardon even before Trump’s election. He expressed that sentiment in a jailhouse interview with Infowars last year. MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” played a clip of the interview.

Oh, I know he’ll pardon us. I believe that with all my heart. You know, the thing is, is hopefully getting him, you know, for him to be able to get into the position where he can at least be, I think, on the ballot to run right ’cause … but I do believe that Donald J. Trump will pardon us and he should. We didn’t do anything. You know, we’re his supporters. We went there like he asked

Trump has said he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants but has not been specific on who among the roughly 1,500 rioters arrested would receive one. He said on his social media platform that he would pardon “many of them” but not the ones who “got out of control.”





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