Quick Glance: 3 Men Acquitted in Trial Connected to Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
- William Null, twin brother Michael Null, and Eric Molitor were found not guilty of supporting a terrorist act and a weapon charge.
- The Nulls and Molitor were accused of supporting the plan's leaders through military-style drills and trips to Whitmer's vacation home in northern Michigan.
- Fox, Croft, and William Null were present at the gathering where an FBI informant secretly recorded profanity-laced threats against public officials.
- Molitor, 39, and William Null, 41, testified in their own defense, admitting to participating in gun drills and visiting Whitmer's property. However, William Null stated that he and his brother distanced themselves when the conversation turned to obtaining explosives.
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Quick Glance: Judge imposes another lengthy prison sentence in Michigan governor kidnapping plan
- Barry Croft Jr. was the fourth and final federal defendant to be sentenced.
- Joshua Blanchard, the defense counsel, said he will appeal the sentence.
- Croft told allies at one point, "I don't like seeing anybody get killed either."
- Croft "went way down a conspiracy rabbit hole," Blanchard said Wednesday, requesting a sentence of less than life in prison.
Quick Glance: Three men sentenced in a kidnapping conspiracy against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ask for forgiveness in court.
- Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced in Jackson County on Thursday, with the prosecution saying that, despite their denial that "nothing happened," they committed the most serious of crimes, an attack on democracy.
- In a democracy, residents settle their issues through elections, according to Whitmer: "We debate, and then we vote."
- He claimed he was "not the boogie man the prosecution is trying to claim that I am."
- According to Doddamani, terrorism "replaces public discourse with intimidation and fear."
Quick Glance: Three men charged in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping conspiracy have been sentenced to prison.
- Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to prison on Thursday.
- Joe Morrison and Pete Musico Adam Fox, the scheme's mastermind, will also be sentenced this month.
- Whitmer, Gretchen "In this country, you are allowed to talk the talk, but you only get convicted if you walk the walk," Musico's attorney unsuccessfully contended during trial.
- Pete Musico and Joseph Morrison arrive in front of Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson for sentencing on Thursday, December 15, 2022 in Jackson, Michigan.