The leader of the group so-called “Cowboys for Trump” is to be released from jail by a federal district court judge, while he’s awaiting trial on charges related to the Capitol riots, according to The Hill.
This will be a reversing of the magistrate judge’s order that Couy Griffin be detained.
Griffin, who also is a New Mexico’s county commissioner, faces a single charge of unlawful entry, which is mainly based on his social media comments about participating in the Capitol riots.
Relying on the comments that Griffin gave about the legitimacy of the 2020 election and Congress’s certification of the results, a magistrate judge had ordered that he be held without bail, doubting he would be willing to obey the court’s orders.
The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for D.C., judge Beryl Howell, noted that Griffin is not alleged to have entered the Capitol building at the time of the riots and doesn’t appear to be a flight risk, so he ordered his release on Friday.
“The defendant’s charged conduct was largely peaceful, his contemporaneous and subsequent statements, while provocative, do not suggest that there are no combination of conditions that could assure his appearance in court,” said Howell during the hearing.
Griffin bragged on social media of his presence at the pro-Trump protests that turned in riots with violent mob storming the Capitol last month, saying in now-deleted Facebook video, how he “climbed up on the top of the Capitol building and … had a first row seat,” it’s said in a court documents.
He also said that the demonstration was peaceful and the group was not violent but gave a warning that if they gathered again at the Capitol for the Second Amendment protest, “there’s gonna be blood running out of that building.”
According to the “Cowboys for Trump” website, Griffin has spoken with the former president in the past.
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