Oath Keepers Attorney Kellye SoRelle Indicted on 4 Obstruction-Related Jan. 6 Criminal Counts

Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle was apprehended Sept. 1 in Texas and charged with 4 federal counts associated with declared blockage of the tranquil transfer of power from President Donald Trump to Joseph Biden Jr. in January 2021.

SoRelle, 43, was jailed in Junction, Texas, on a warrant from the District of Columbia.

Attorney Kellye SoRelle. (LinkedIn)

She was charged (pdf) with conspiracy to block a main case, helping and abetting the blockage of a main case, getting in and staying in a limited structure or premises, and blockage of justice– damaging files.

Her indictment might toss a wrench into the Sept. 26 trial of Oath Keepers creator Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and a number of members and partners of the group. SoRelle was anticipated to be called as a defense witness to affirm that there was no seditious conspiracy for the Oath Keepers to assault the Capitol or affect the counting of electoral votes.

Being under indictment might eliminate her from witness lists, stated lawyer Jonathon Moseley, who represented Rhodes prior to your house Jan. 6 Select Committee, and previously represented Oath Keepers offender Kelly Meggs. Moseley questioned the timing of SoRelle’s arrest.

Trial Delay Will be Needed

” The FBI interviewed her as early as May 2021,” Moseley informed The Epoch Times. “So they wait till right before trial to deny the Oath Keepers of another witness. The Oath Keepers trial will have to be postponed from September, most likely likewise from November.

” She can affirm while she’s dealing with prosecution, however that’s not going to get exercised in 3 weeks,” Moseley stated.

Federal judge Amit Mehta has actually rebuffed various defense movements to postpone the trial. Most just recently, lawyer Brad Geyer informed Judge Mehta he can’t correctly get ready for trial since federal district attorneys are keeping exculpatory proof that would benefit his customer Kenneth Harrelson and other Oath Keepers offenders.

The Jan. 6 choose committee has actually tried to connect previous President Donald Trump to a supposed conspiracy with the Oath Keepers to keep Trump in power beyond inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021.

SoRelle and Rhodes reject having any direct contact with Trump or belonging to a conspiracy. They composed him an open letter in December 2020 prompting him to conjure up the Insurrection Act, which would have permitted the usage of militias to put down riots or secure structures such as the White House from attacks by Antifa radicals.

Rhodes rejected accusations by an Oath Keepers member that Rhodes attempted to call Trump from a D.C. hotel on Jan. 6.

That assertion was included in a plea contract signed by William Todd Wilson, 45, of Newton Grove, North Carolina. Wilson pleaded guilty on May 4 to seditious conspiracy and blockage of a main federal government case– both felonies bring sentences as much as 20 years in jail.

Wilson informed district attorneys he remained in a space at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington D.C. in the late afternoon of Jan. 6. He declares Rhodes telephoned to an unnamed individual to “consistently urge the private to inform Trump to hire groups like the Oath Keepers to by force oppose the transfer of power,” according to his plea arrangement declaration of offense (pdf).

Moseley stated that never ever occurred.

” Stewart Rhodes straight informed me when asked particularly about this report that he totally rejected the claim that he had actually attempted to call Trump through an intermediary, straight or indirectly,” Moseley informed The Epoch Times on May 9, 2022.

It is unclear if SoRelle will be attempted in addition to members of the Oath Keepers or if she will stand trial alone.

Rhodes has actually often suggested that prosecution of the Oath Keepers becomes part of a bigger effort to reduce Trump and keep him off the tally in November 2024.

Moseley stated the conviction of Rhodes and other Oath Keepers would be seen by some as a so-called “October Surprise” to assist tip the mid-term elections to the Democrats.

” Stewart Rhodes has likewise stated that he thinks that the concept is to prepare the general public for an indictment of Donald Trump prior to the November elections,” Moseley stated.

SoRelle has actually managed legal matters for the Oath Keepers, and Latinos for Trump. From 2011 through 2017, she was assistant district lawyer in Cameron County, Texas.