PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors and defense attorneys continued to trade legal volleys Friday in the case of Joshua Macias, the election denier from Virginia who traveled to the Pennsylvania Convention Center — in a QAnon-emblazoned Hummer containing weapons and ammunition — as votes were being counted in the 2020 presidential election.
District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office has sought to have Macias, 43, sent back to prison while awaiting trial on weapons- and election-related charges, due, in part, to his presence outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and his use of social media in violation of the conditions of his bail.
Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons said on Monday that Macias, a cofounder of Vets for Trump, had “clearly violated” some of his bail conditions, but she declined to have him jailed. She gave him a stern warning:
