Ryan Routh guilty in Florida golf club kill plot

Routh was accused of assassinating a large presidential candidate, having firearms in the progress of violence, having firearms, attacked a federal officer, a fiery weapon and prisoner criminals and ammunition and ammunition having a serial number. He claimed that he was not guilty of the charges.

Prosecutors said that Ruth had spent weeks before the Republican Republican West Palm Beach Country Club played a golf that was not far from the Mar-a-lago residence in the West Palm Country Club.

Routh told the jury members at the closing argument that he didn’t want to kill anyone that day.

“It is hard for me to believe that a crime has occurred if the trigger has never been withdrawn, R Routh said.

He said that he could see Trump on the road towards the sixth -hole green on the golf field and that he could hit a secret service agent that confronts him if he aims to harm anyone.

59 -year -old Routh, in his defense of the constitutional right not to testify. On Monday morning, only three witnesses – firearms and two characters witnessed – after questioning for about three hours. In contrast, prosecutors spent seven days and 38 witnesses to question.

The Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi said that the guilty decision on a mission in X showed the commitment of the Ministry of Justice to punish those who participated in political violence ”.

“This assassination attempt was not only an attack on our president, but an insult to our nation, Bond said Bondi.

US Regional Judge Aileen Cannon, after two hearings in July, Routh’s demand for himself signed. The US Supreme Court decided that the defendants of the penalties have the right to represent themselves in court proceedings and that they can show a judge to renounce their right to defend by a lawyer.

Routh’s former defense lawyers have served as a waiting consultant since they took over their defense and was present at the hearing in the last two weeks.

A secret service agent, which describes what happened at the Trump International Golf Club at the time, said that he had noticed Routh before Trump appeared at the hearing before. Routh targeted the agent that opened his rifle and caused Routh to drop his gun and escape without shooting.

The law enforcement officers received help from a witness who stated that a person who escaped from the region saw after hearing the gunshots. The witness was later blown into a nearby states where Routh was arrested in a police helicopter, and the witness said that it was the person he saw.

Only nine weeks ago Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania campaign while campaigning on his life survived an attempt. This armed man had made eight shots, a bullet grazed Trump’s ear. The armed man was later shot by a secret service counter by a sniper.

Routh was a North Carolina construction worker in Hawaii in recent years. Witnesses, in his statement to Associated Press, Routh, a leader of his own style, spoke to everyone who will listen to dangerous and sometimes violent plans.

In the early days of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Routh tried to take soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova and Taiwan to fight the Russians. Native Greensboro was arrested in North Carolina, in 2002 that he escaped from a traffic stop and was a explosives of a 25 -centimeter insurance for barricating him with the “weapon of mass destruction”.

In 2010, the police searched for a warehouse and found more than 100 stolen goods from electric tools and building materials to boats and SPA baths. In both heavy cases, judges gave Routh a probation or suspended punishment.

In addition to federal accusations, Routh also claimed that he was not guilty of terrorism accusations and attempted murder.

AP