A lawyer for an Army veteran who got over the White House fence and ran inside the executive mansion before being stopped says his client shouldn't spend any more time in jail.
A lawyer for Omar Gonzalez filed a court document Friday asking a judge to give his client "time served" at a sentencing hearing set for Tuesday. Gonzalez has been in jail for approximately nine months since his arrest Sept. 19.
Federal sentencing guidelines suggest a sentence ranging from a year to a year and a half in prison, his attorney wrote. The attorney says Gonzalez deserves leniency because of his Army service.
Prosecutors gave a different guideline range in previously filed papers. They asked that the 43-year-old Gonzalez be sentenced to nearly two years in prison.
