Prosecutors are looking for jail time for 5 members of a Texas household arrested for roles within the U.S. Capitol breach. In new court docket filings, the Justice Division recommends one month in jail for Daybreak and Thomas Munn, and 21-day jail sentences for 3 of the couple's grownup youngsters.
The Munn household, of Borger, Texas, has pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor cost, acknowledging they spent practically an hour contained in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, together with time in a non-public Senate convention room. Family members are accused of bragging about their roles on Jan. 6, or of misrepresenting the scale and scope of the assault and harm. One of many 5 is accused of blaming police.
In letters and court docket filings looking for leniency, the mom of the household continues to lift questions in regards to the legitimacy of the 2020 election outcomes, citing "mathematical impossibilities" within the outcomes from Election Day. In her letter to the court docket, Daybreak Munn mentioned the household traveled to Washington as a part of a commencement journey for 2 of her youthful youngsters. In one of many letters, Munn indicated a federal stimulus test helped pay for the journey.
A 3rd daughter, underneath the age of 18, was additionally contained in the Capitol with the household, in accordance with court docket filings.
Prosecutors alleged within the filings that Daybreak Munn, 57, a nurse; her husband, Thomas, 55, a U.S. Military veteran; son Joshua, 25, a janitor; and daughters Kristi, 30, and 20-year-old Kayli climbed into the Capitol by way of damaged home windows in a Senate wing door.
In a sequence of sentencing memorandums filed this week, the Justice Division laid out a sequence of allegations in opposition to the household. In Kristi Munn's case, prosecutors mentioned, "Regardless of witnessing confrontations with officers, the defendant and her household continued to roam the Capitol constructing till discovering their strategy to Room S-145, a Senate convention room, the place they frolicked observing a lot of rioters and officers gathered to the west of the constructing."
In keeping with the memos, prosecutors requested D.C. District Court docket Chief Choose Beryl Howell to condemn the Munn mother and father to 30 days in jail and to concern three-week sentences to the grownup youngsters. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 12.
Safety digital camera photos launched by the Justice Division present quite a lot of photos of the Munn household amid the mob. In keeping with the prosecutors' filings, Thomas is proven smoking a cigarette whereas shifting by way of the constructing. Considered one of his daughters may be seen carrying a camouflage jacket, whereas one other is draped in a Trump banner. A household photograph close to the Capitol, with the face of the underage youngster obscured, is included in court docket filings from the Justice Division.
Asking for leniency from the choose, Daybreak Munn has submitted a pair of letters to the court docket. In a single, Munn wrote, "As of but, there has not been a particular reply to my query, on the accuracy of the vote, so a query does stay. I do acknowledge that the vote was licensed, and President Biden was inaugurated on Jan 20 of 2021, so I completely settle for he's the president. Our president. Whether or not or not I agree with an individual's insurance policies, I do respect the place and President Biden was inaugurated because the president of our nation. I do have a whole lot of regret, for going into the constructing by way of the window, and extra so general, about going into the constructing in any respect. I ought to have recognized that one thing was fallacious. You don't enter the Capitol by way of a damaged window. I did notice one thing was very fallacious and shortly after getting into I started making an attempt to determine what to do --and how you can get my household out of the constructing."
In one other letter, Daybreak Munn referenced "mathematical impossibilities" involving the 2020 election and her household's questions on election integrity. She wrote, "In early January, I found a stimulus test had been deposited into our checking account. The household talked had a few journey to Washington D.C. to see the President communicate and to see our nation's historical past. This journey had a full itinerary, together with to see the Lincoln Monument, in addition to Arlington Nationwide Cemetery. The journey was made on very brief discover and on a restricted funds."
Protection attorneys for a lot of the Munn household didn't instantly return requests for remark.
Of their particular person court docket filings looking for leniency at sentencing, the Munns make a sequence of arguments, together with one which they weren't violent on January 6. They're asking for probation and that the household be spared from jail.
An legal professional for Kayli Munn, the youngest of the three youngsters charged, wrote in a memo to the court docket, "Ms. Kayli Munn was the youngest of the Munn household to be charged, as she was the youngest grownup who was charged. Ms. Munn got here on the journey willingly, however she was not the coordinator of the journey, being accompanied by her mother and father. To be clear, she was a keen participant, and doesn't deny her private culpability on this matter, however her involvement was not as an organizer, however relatively a younger grownup accompanying her household to a rally and inappropriately becoming a member of them as all of them entered into the U.S. Capitol."
The protection legal professional for Kristi Munn wrote, "As a bunch of 5, the Munn household was conscious of sticking collectively to keep away from turning into separated amongst the big crowd which made their exit extra sophisticated than for these performing alone. Though Ms. Munn and her household had been inside for about 51 minutes, greater than half of that point was spent searching for a manner out and/or avoiding chaotic and doubtlessly harmful conditions."
Military veteran Thomas Munn's legal professional argued he doesn't current a hazard to the group.
"Mr. Munn's historical past just isn't that of a harmful legal, however of a loyal husband and caring father, who made a horrible error in judgment on January sixth. He's a stay-at-home dad who has eight youngsters along with his spouse."
Daybreak Munn's legal professional, Heather Shaner, instructed CBS Information a probation sentence could be extra helpful.
"I'd suggest training programs in civics and U.S. authorities at a group faculty as a requirement of a time period of probation could be of better profit to the defendant, her household and the group than a interval of incarceration."
There are roughly 880 federal defendants within the U.S. Capitol riot. The Munn members of the family are amongst roughly 300 who've pleaded responsible to misdemeanors.