Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer will likely be sentenced for his participation within the January 6 United States Capitol assault on February 20, 2024. The sentencing date was set by U.S. District Court docket Decide Amit Mehta, who issued the following order on Schaffer‘s sentencing.
“The Court docket hereby refers Defendant Schaffer to the U.S. Probation Workplace for preparation of a presentence investigation report. The Ultimate Presentence Investigation Report shall be due on or earlier than February 6, 2024. The Events’ Sentencing Memoranda shall be due on or earlier than February 13, 2024.
“Replies, if any, shall be due on or earlier than February 16, 2024. Reply briefs shall be restricted to 5 pages. Sentencing for Jon Ryan Schaffer is hereby set for February 20, 2024 at 2:00 PM in Courtroom 10 earlier than Decide Amit P. Mehta. Signed by Decide Amit P. Mehta on 8/11/2023.”
Schaffer and the US authorities entered a plea deal in April 2021, which partly resulted within the 18-year sentenced of Stewart Rhodes, chief of the far-right extremist group Oath Keepers. A part of Schaffer‘s plea deal included a extra lenient sentence in change for info on his fellow insurrectionists, in addition to the potential for the Justice Division to put Schaffer into the witness safety program.
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