Richard Barnett leans back in Nancy Pelosi

Richard Barnett, who kicked up his feet on a desk in Speaker Pelosi’s office, had a stun gun at the time.

The man photographed putting his foot up on a desk inside then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol has been convicted of all charges.

A close-up of the photograph showed the Richard “Bigo” Barnett had a stun gun in his pants.

Barnett’s eight-count superseding indictment charged him with civil disorder, obstructing an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly weapon, theft of government property and multiple misdemeanors associated with his entering the Capitol.

This is a developing story.

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Law&Crime’s managing editor Adam Klasfeld has spent more than a decade on the legal beat. Previously a reporter for Courthouse News, he has appeared as a guest on NewsNation, NBC, MSNBC, CBS’s “Inside Edition,” BBC, NPR, PBS, Sky News, and other networks. His reporting on the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell was featured on the Starz and Channel 4 documentary “Who Is Ghislaine Maxwell?” He is the host of Law&Crime podcast “Objections: with Adam Klasfeld.”



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