Capitol riot: Nashville's 'zip-tie guy' guilty on all charges

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25. Especially since the prosecutors filed that he was a flight risk at pre-trial.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.85025/gov.uscourts.tnmd.85025.8.0.pdf

The appeals court told Lamberth to change his ruling on keeping Munchel detained pre-trial, so Lamberth probably doesn't want another appeal overruling him after conviction. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-cases-jail-ruling-eric-munchel-case

Other considerations could be the judge's case load, the judge's sentencing practices, or the judge himself. Apparently, Lamberth didn't think the DOJ under Obama prosecuted very fairly, and it likely didn't. He doesn't seem ideological. So it seems pretty complicated, as are a lot of these cases, what with all these white folks wanting such special "due process" treatment.

Keep in mind that it's been a long hard slog for the DC courts over Jan 6. And the larger context for all this is that the judicial system, overall, is overburdened.

Of course, out here, we know that Republicans in Congress want to make sure it stays that way.