Justice continues to be meted out for those who participated in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, and one of the defendants sentenced just last week was a recent law school admittee. For someone who had aspirations to enter the legal profession, this isn’t the side of the law you want to be on.
As first reported by CBS 42, would-be lawyer James Grant had been accepted to the University of Alabama School of Law in the Fall of 2021. In his sentencing memo, Grant’s lawyer, Robert Feitel, states that his client was accepted to the Top 50 law school with a full tuition scholarship. CBS has additional details:
Grant, 31, of Cary, North Carolina, climbed into the Capitol through a broken window and entered a senator’s office. After his arrest, he told investigators that the FBI was “the biggest threat to Americans” and that prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters was “a big witch hunt.”
One of the first to breach the interior of the Capitol, according to his own sentencing memo, Grant “wandered through the halls, entered a Senator’s office, where he was photographed sitting calmly.” Here’s that photo, where Grant can be seen giving the peace sign:
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