A suspended Charleston-area attorney was sentenced Friday to 21 days in jail and 90 days of house arrest for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The lawyer, David Johnston, 66, must also pay a $2,500 fine and $500 restitution for his part in the nearly $3 million worth of damages done by rioters in the Capitol breach. He will also be on probation for three years.
A one-paragraph federal court filing filed several hours after Johnston’s sentencing hearing in a District of Columbia courtroom initially said, without elaborating, that Johnston’s probation would have “special conditions of intermittent confinement and home detention.”
Later Friday, a seven-page filing by U.S. Judge Beryl Howell spelled out the confinement conditions, saying that Johnston would spend 21 days confinement “at a facility designated by the Bureau of Prisons.”
Howell recommended that Johnston be assigned to the Charleston County Detention Center in North Charleston. Federal prosecutor Ashly Akers had asked that Johnston receive a 42-day prison sentence.
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