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Sam Stanton

‘Worst decision of his life.’ Jan. 6 defendant from California seeks leniency at sentencing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tommy Frederick Allan says he knows he’s going to prison, that after scaling the walls of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on a rope, stealing an American flag and some documents from the Senate chamber and later declaring on social media that it was the “best day ever” he faces some sort of punishment.

He just doesn’t think he deserves the two years in prison federal prosecutors are seeking.

“What I did on January 6th was wrong,” Allan wrote in a letter to the federal judge who is scheduled to sentence him next week in Washington, D.C. “I deserve to be punished.

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