Outrage! Texas couple sentenced to over a year in prison after being assaulted by Capitol Police officers while praying on J6
Mark Middleton, 55, and Jalise Middleton, 54, both of Forestburg, Texas, have been sentenced to 30 and 20 months in prison by US District Judge Randolph D. Moss.
A federal judge has sentenced a Texas married couple on Wednesday to years in prison over their alleged role in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol in 2021. The husband and wife claimed that they were praying outside the Capitol when police launched crowd control munitions and forcibly began to push them back. The defendants alleged they were assaulted by police during the process, prompting them to use self-defense, which included using physical violence on two responding officers.
Mark Middleton, 55, and Jalise Middleton, 54, both of Forestburg, Texas, have been sentenced to 30 and 20 months in prison by US District Judge Randolph D. Moss. The prison sentences follow years of supervised release, 36 months for Mark and 30 months for Jalise, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, which initially sought 7.25 prison sentences for each defendant.
A federal jury convicted both of them in February of several felony and misdemeanor charges, including two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding police officers, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct, engaging in physical violence, and other…