Barry Croft did not recruit, lead or control men convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and does not deserve to spend the rest of his life in federal prison, his lawyer wrote in a court filing late Thursday.
There was no actual plan and Croft, the national leader of the Three Percenters, a far-right, anti-government militia group, did not attempt to blow up a bridge with explosives and should not face a longer than necessary prison sentence, defense lawyer Josh Blanchard wrote.
The court filing provided a humanized view of the Delaware trucker and father of three girls compared to the portrait presented during trial of Croft as a "stoned crazy pirate," a bombmaker and extremist bent on inciting a second Civil War who was captured on secret FBI recordings talking about fantastical ways to attack law enforcement.
