The sentence handed down to James Robert Elliott on Thursday is the harshest dealt so far to an Illinois resident charged in the riot.
In addition to the 37-month prison sentence, Elliott must also pay $2,000 in restitution, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C.
Defense attorney James Welsh wrote that Elliott joined the Proud Boys "to find like-minded people he could converse with," and later offered to cooperate with the feds against the group. But Elliott did not have useful information to offer, so Welsh alleged that prosecutors then chose to "use his Proud Boy affiliation against him."
"I didn't know what was true and what wasn't," Elliott wrote. "So much chatter was going on in and outside of my head I didn't know what to believe, as time went on and more info came to the surface I became more apprehensive of what actually happened and I began siding more with people that were against what happened."
Welsh wrote that Elliott was simply "dressed in his typical rally gear" out of concern that he might run into members of the Antifa movement. They had thrown rocks and other objects at Elliott during previous rallies, Welsh claimed.
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